“addressing your weaknesses is useful up to a point, but playing to your strengths is more rewarding and more fun!”

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From a classic Usenet “Computing Dictionary”:

Easy to learn: Hard to use.

Easy to use: Hard to learn.

Easy to learn and use: Won’t do what you want it to.

A new job is like a child. At first, it appears completely harmless and full of wonder. It’s only after you’ve invested grinding years of your life into it, surrendering sleep and any sense of fun, that you discover that it’s a complete disappointment and will never amount to anything, never respect you, and it certainly isn’t going to take care of you during your twilight years.

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“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

~Albert Einstein

There’s been so much concern about what might happen that what’s actually happening has passed almost unnoticed.
– Eric Praetzel

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu

A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.

Agent K, Men In Black

Theodore Roosevelt: ““Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people…To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship.”

We tiptoe through life so that we can safely arrive at death.

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

— Stephen King