
Waypoints on the Remnants Way
In Defense of Coffee - In which I defend the penultimate adult beverage and its importance to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Personal reflections on computer technology, business, and culture while aspiring to a virtuous life as viewed from my patch of nowhere.
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In Defense of Coffee - In which I defend the penultimate adult beverage and its importance to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis

I first posted about this effort a few months ago and so far everything is on track.

"The best writing is rewriting." - E. B. White

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." - Mark Twain

"Practice is the best of all instructors." - Publilius

"The hardest thing in the world to do in this business is start a band nobody’s heard of." - Tom Whalley, Interscope Records

"It’s not the plane - it’s the pilot." - Chuck Yeager

"What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art." - Wendy Carlos

"Don’t push it. Just let it fall." - Duke Ellington