Patrick Spears

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.”-Julius Ceasar

On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C.  President Lincoln would die the next morning, becoming the first U.S. President to be assassinated. Lincoln is still regarded as the greatest President in U.S. history according to many polls and surveys. RIP President Lincoln

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years”-Abraham Lincoln

“One, who takes lessons from his past and improves on himself need not fear the future. ”-Atharva-Veda

“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.”-Alan Alda

“I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself.”-Ralph Lauren in GQ

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”-Washington Irving

Developing creative solutions for problems to help advance mankind:

“Luis von Ahn, the man who brought the world CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA unveiled his newest and most innovative project to date: Duolingo. How can you translate the entire internet and do it for free? Duolingo will be a revolutionary product in which millions of internet users from around the world will work together to translate the internet and learn a new language at the same time. All for free.

Luis von Ahn is the A. Nico Habermann Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall’-Confucius

Random story: I have a little free time from studying the other day, and so I decide to do some clothing searches on eBay. I type “Versace for H&M men” into the search box. The screen pops up and the second photo catches my eye. I instantly think to myself, “that looks almost identical to one of my photos”. So I click the tab and it actually turns out to be my photo. After it registered that someone was randomly using my photo on eBay to sell their products I was originally displeased. However I considered the facts that they didn’t crop out my logo which is proper photo etiquette (actually disrespectful if logo removed), the seller has a great rep out of New York, and they could only get my photo from the Target Practice section of this site which means they visited. So in the end I was flattered that they thought my photo was best to use for selling their items. Best of luck and thanks for visiting my site “honeylululeelu”.