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Ajax. Usability. Code. Sql. Notepad++ SAP Help Portal. Sorting out sorting. ERP ROI. You are always better off living from your integrity, no matter what it looks like it might cost you in the moment. Dr. Jennifer Howard If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett , from Jeffrey Fry In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein, from Liz Weber Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur, from Ken Lizotte One of the hardest things in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn. David Russell, @Chris Cade If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right. Bob Basso, @aspaonline Stripped of all its trappings, leadership is the courage to do the right thing. Michael McKinney T. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Idle Words. Dabblers And Blowhards I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before.

This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would *really* like to avoid it- Paul Graham, posting on lemonodor.com About two years ago, the Lisp programmer and dot-com millionaire Paul Graham wrote an essay entitled Hackers and Painters, in which he argues that his approach to computer programming is better described by analogies to the visual arts than by the phrase "computer science". When this essay came out, I was working as a computer programmer, and since I had also spent a few years as a full-time oil painter, everybody who read the article and knew me sent along the hyperlink. I didn't particularly enjoy the essay — I thought the overall tone was glib, and I found the parallel to painting unconvincing — but it didn't seem like anything worth getting worked up about. Start with purpose. . John Ruskin Hee hee.