February 2012
2 posts
“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are...”
– James Patterson, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
“The construction of a suit is suffering, it’s pain.”
– Antonio Leonelli, O’Mast
January 2012
3 posts
“It times of change the learners will inherit the earth, whilst the knowers will...”
– Eric Hoffer
“Vancouver Sun
TO JACK SCOTT, VANCOUVER SUN
October 1, 1958 57 Perry...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1)
“If you fall, I’ll be there.”
– Floor
December 2011
4 posts
“I don’t know about Rdio—I’ve never done any looking into it. Spotify, in...”
– David Bazan on subscription based music services like Rdio and Spotify.
“Happiness is really just the 15 minutes after you’ve completed one...”
– Alain de Botton
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
“Most ideas fail for one reason, it’s because they don’t start.”
– David Hieatt, The Do Lectures
November 2011
1 post
“These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don’t give...”
– Clint Eastwood, The Leo Tapes
October 2011
5 posts
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative...”
– Albert Einstein
“I was a baseball player in school. I had a good arm, I could catch anything, but...”
– George Clooney, What Drives George Clooney
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be...”
– John Adams
“Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
September 2011
1 post
“I’ll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined...”
– Chicago Bulls forward Stacey King, after a game in which Michael Jordan scored 69 points
August 2011
2 posts
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
– Jim Rohn
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be...”
– John Adams
July 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
“Why does the President live in the White House if he’s really representing...”
– Tupac Shakur
“Personally, unless a home is filthy or is a danger to the person who lives there...”
– Erin Doland, Societal Pressure to ‘Keep House’
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All...”
– Ira Glass
April 2011
2 posts
“It takes a long time to grow young.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Most important decision I ever made came at age 9… I was collecting Buck...”
– Ray Bradbury
March 2011
4 posts
“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other’s...”
– Steve Jobs, Apple
Helping other people helps me.
Having guts always works out for me.
Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
Being not truthful always works against me.
Everything I do always comes back to me.
Assuming is stifling.
Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
Over time I get used to...
“Wouldn’t it be great if the technology we use to take care of ourselves...”
– Jamie Heywood, The Big Idea My Brother Inspired
“You can’t fail if you don’t give up.”
– Stephen, The Last Kiss
February 2011
2 posts
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is...”
– Douglas Adams, “The Salmon of Doubt”
“We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”
– Walt Disney
December 2010
2 posts
“And we just wanted to be surrounded by high quality stuff, because I believe...”
– Jason Fried, The New 37signals Office
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “The Wisdom of the Sands”
October 2010
1 post
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak
July 2010
2 posts
“Music is the space between the notes. It’s not the notes you play;...”
– Miles Davis
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso
May 2010
3 posts
“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two...”
– Ryan Singer
“There are meetings which, when cancelled at the last minute, give one an...”
– Alain de Botton
“We tend to think that consumerism is about loving our stuff. But it’s not....”
– James Shelley, Beat Consumerism: Love Your Stuff
April 2010
4 posts
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my...”
– J. Botherton
“I asked him if he would come up with a few options and he said, “no, I...”
– Steve Jobs, on Paul Rand
“We would rather suffer the visible costs of a few bad decisions than incur the...”
– Warren Buffett, letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders
“The quit stay is someone who started a job with enthusiasm but somewhere along...”
– Kate Southam, “Are you a ‘quit stay’ or a Malcolm Turnbull?”
March 2010
6 posts
“Education is the most sustainable product you can give anyone.”
– Jurgen Bey
“User interface is customer service for the computer.”
– Larson-Green, Windows washer: Meet Microsoft’s antidote to Vista
February 2010
8 posts
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is...”
– Dieter Rams