John

“Save us from the help of the well-meaning.”
― Eric L. Haney, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit

“A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

(DUTCH PROVERB)”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Your skills will increase with experience, which is the more fun cousin of practice. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you’re alive.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“War has also taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow—or force—to dominate our being.”
― Eric L. Haney, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit