"An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it."

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Joel Spolsky

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“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.”
“I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelfâ€¦ Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.”

Source : "Scientist: Social Networking Sites Harming Kids Brains", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2009.
“My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.”
“If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match Godâ€™s will? If you arenâ€™t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.”
“I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.”
“Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.”
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

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