Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail… - Joel Spolsky

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Most college students, fortunately, are brash enough never to bother asking their elders for advice, which, in the field of computer science, is a good thing, because their elders are apt to say goofy, antediluvian things like "the demand for keypunch operators will exceed 100,000,000 by the year 2010" and "lisp careers are really very hot right now."

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.