Music will save the world.
The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.