I remember watching Steve Jobs' commencement speech for the first time and being fairly touched by the three stories he told in it. The major one that resonated with me at the time, and has since made more sense to me, is the first story he tells about joining the dots later on when you're looking backwards. To quote from ...

At the 2009 Barcamp Leeds I attended a talk by Neil Crosby where he talked about automated testing, and about how he felt there was a gap in everything that people were testing. Everyone has unit tests, and people are doing full stack testing too, but no-one (so he feels) does XHTML/CSS/JS validation as part of their automated test suite. ...

I ran across The Shell Meme on Lincoln Stoll's blog, and figured I'd, uh, borrow it.

Much like Rahoul's post on knowing you're on the right path, I had that moment this morning whilst we were discussing a future feature for our control panel.