"Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks."

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Source : "The first 100k users are always the hardest". BayCHI Podcast, August 8, 2006.

Matt Mullenweg

“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”
“Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose, P. D. Saggi (1954). “A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”
“To believe is to become what you believe.”
“I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.”

Source : Patricia Heaton (2002). “Motherhood and Hollywood: How To Get a Job Like Mine”, p.117, Villard
“And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.92, Penguin
“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?”
“We live by actionâ€”by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to wantâ€”whether geniuses or beggarsâ€”are related by impotence.”
“I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.”

Source : Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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