George Patton A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. 2008-04-13T06:11:23Z http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/944-george-patton-quotes mikeashley mikeashley Kanan Makiya I know that I got many things wrong in the run-up to the 2003 war, but, in spite of everything, I still do not know how to regret wanting to knock down the walls of the great concentration camp that was Saddam Hussein's Iraq. 2008-03-17T23:11:40Z http://www.slate.com/id/2186763/ indiemaps mikeashley indiemaps Jimmy Buffet If you decide to run with the ball, just count on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of you, but never forget how much fun it is just to be able to run with the ball. 2008-03-13T04:45:12Z http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/03/open-letter-to-jeff-atwood.html mikeashley mikeashley Larry McMurtry A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's as apt to land on a horse turd as it is a rose. 2008-02-19T05:55:03Z http://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Cheyenne-Larry-McMurtry/dp/0671753800 mikeashley mikeashley Steve Yegge Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try to force people to model everything. Programmers hate that. These languages will never, ever enjoy any substantial commercial success, for the exact same reason the Semantic Web is a failure. You can't force people to provide metadata for everything they do. They'll hate you. 2008-02-11T14:41:20Z http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.html al3x mikeashley al3x