Fun
The internet is mostly cat pictures these days
The internet is mostly cat pictures these days. I remember the good old days when the internet was conspiracy theorists, porn, and DOOM WAD files. QDB: Quote #300893
Religion
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people
Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be religious people. Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
Internet
The quantity of information
problem on the internet: the quantity of information available continues to rise while the quantity of factual data grounded in scientific methods fails to keep pace tumbledry.org, When Information Overwhelms Facts
Work
Yesterday’s technology
This is the double life many people lead: yesterday’s technology for work, today’s technology for everything else. The Wall Street Journal: Why You Can’t Use Personal Technology at the Office
User experience
When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates
When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates. Donald A. Norman, The Invisible Computer (1988)
Old Media
We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage
We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry that is able to retrieve a surplus balance of trade and whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine. Chief movie lobbyist Jack Valenti on
Cloud computing
Early on, people believed that their money was safer
Early on, people believed that their money was safer under their mattress than in a bank Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, on cloud computing, Times Online (Wayback Machine)
Describe solutions rather than ask for tasks
Far better to reach a level of confidence and skill that you can describe solutions rather than ask for tasks. Seth Godin: “What do you need me to do?”
Work
Much more important than working hard
Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Caterina.net, Working hard is overrated (Wayback Machine)
Music
Some folks really take a band and its music
Yet some folks really take a band and its music into the deepest part of themselves. The songs become their personal soundtrack. Vernon Reid, on the Living Colour Blog (Wayback Machine)
Zijn prioriteiten spreken niet altijd uit z'n persoonlijke planning
Zijn prioriteiten spreken niet altijd uit z'n persoonlijke planning. BasL
Shipping is a feature
Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. Joel Spolsky, The Duct Tape Programmer