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• To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
• To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start. -- Finagle's First Rule
• The worth of the State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing i
  and a State which postpones the interest of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more of administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives in the details of business....
• Learn to type and take some kind of shorthand notes.
  Read everything to do with history, biography, English, art, music....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• To develop a complete mind: Study the science of a
  study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else....
• widdle: n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~'). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
  2. A small and insignificant change to a program....
• All great friendships start with a small act of spontaneity.
• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....