August 2009
1 post
“Today’s young people learn how to be themselves via social networking...”
– Germaine Greer, Too much reality to bear.
July 2009
1 post
“[E]very city begins as a slum. First it’s a seasonal camp, with the usual...”
– The Choice of Cities, Kevin Kelly
June 2009
15 posts
“In our research, every time we found a site where the search results were doing...”
– Jared M. Spool, Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1
“I submit that obsessing about celebrity is unhealthy for the single reason that...”
– Doc Searls, Beyond celebrity obsession
“Uncertainty is inherent and inevitable in software development processes and...”
– Hadar Ziv, Debra J. Richardson, René Klösch The Uncertainty Principle in Software Engineering (via The roots of agile project management)
“[C]onspicuous consumption” is being replaced by “conspicuous expression” as the...”
– Stephen Lino , Brad Bate , Michael Keating, Conspicuous, but not Consuming
“What matters most, more than anything, is getting the right words in front of...”
– Tim Bray, The Internet’s Payload
“I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because...”
– Ray Bradbury in A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library, June 19 2009, Jenniger Steinhauer (via Tim O’Reilly)
“[T]ools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically...”
– Clay Shirky, How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history (TED talk)
“I like the concept of wearing in instead of wearing out.”
– Bill Moggridge, Objectfied
“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.”
– Richard Hamming, Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (1962), epigraph (via Leisa Reichelt on twitter)
“Maybe it’s time to dispense with modernism and all its prefixes.”
– Ursula K Le Guin, Into the cosmos with Qfwfq, The Guardian, Saturday 13 June 2009
“[T]he most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us....”
– Steven Johnson, How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live, TIME, Firday, June 5, 2009
“Enlightened trial-and-error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.”
– Peter Skillman, The Deep Dive (YouTube video), ABC Nightline, July 13, 1999
“She could not listen good enough to hear it all. The music boiled inside her....”
– Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, p.107
“Endless stories, all crossing each other, and mine tiny, negligent, quick as a...”
– Ali Smith, Park Stories: The definitive article, p. 12
“Without bees? Nothing. Nothing pollinated. Hardly any fruit, almost no...”
– Ali Smith, Park Stories: The definitive article, p. 10
May 2009
8 posts
“Calvino was brave because he sat down to write what interested him - not what...”
– Jeanette Winterson, An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing
“When a writer regrets something that he or she has written, if it is fiction, it...”
– Jeanette Winterson, An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing
“[You] cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture.”
– Michael Pollan, Deep Agriculture (mp3)
“In the digital space, the Map creates the Territory.”
– Andrew Hinton, You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space & The Context Problem (mp3)
“[F]inance is America’s biggest industry - our biggest business sector. How...”
– Douglas Rushkoff,
Debt is not a good product
“Code which is too tricky is too often wrong.”
– Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts (Video, quote is at 20:14)
“This is the landscape of corporatism: a world not merely dominated by...”
– Douglas Rushkoff,
Life Inc
“The status quo is selfishness, and the toxically wealthy are our new heroes...”
– Douglas Rushkoff,
Life Inc
April 2009
3 posts
“Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.”
– Jon Postel, (via Dave Winer, A source of inspiration: Jon Postel )
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but I haven’t found the original source. (via neil noakes, ‘Search for…’ Partcipating with advertising)
“Only two industries refer to their customers as ‘users’: computer...”
– Edward Tufte: New ET Writings, Artworks & News
February 2009
5 posts
“Create more value than you capture.”
– Tim O’Reilly, Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
“English’s signal virtue is its malleability. If you want to speak a...”
– Cory Doctorow on twitter
“[T]he Internet, properly used, could actually roll back government and corporate...”
– John Walker, The Digital Imprimatur
“A map is not the territory it represents.”
– Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, p 58 (via Peter Morville, Ambient Findability, p 46)
“Information is about communication. It involves the exchange of symbols, ideas,...”
– Peter Morville, Ambient Findability, p 46
January 2009
4 posts
“[T]he more influential government becomes the more it is essential that it...”
– Tony Benn, Liberty is not an issue of left or right, it is crucial to democracy
“Newspapers have long done battle with the church and the state while courting...”
– Jill Lepore, Back Issues: The day the newspaper died.
“Like many of my ilk, maybe I do view my collection as a bulwark against...”
– Dave Segal Dispossessed: How I Lost Most of My Music Collection—and Nearly My Mind
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly- at first.”
– Dirk Karpinski, via Jeff Raskin in The Humane Interface, via James Page.
December 2008
1 post
“People tend to be offended by facts, or what used to be called truth.”
– Francis Bacon
September 2008
11 posts
“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most...”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, p. 45
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, p. 19
“I don’t have to listen to you. You’re a dog. You don’t have...”
– Chris Griffin, Family Guy, Season 4, Episode 1: North by North Quahog
“I can barely see ‘cause my head’s in the way.”
– David Byrne (and Brian Eno), Life is Long
3 tags
“Culture is something that is done to us. Art is something we do to culture.”
– Carl Andre, via Roger Copeland, “Against Instinct: The Denatured Dances of Merce Cunningham” Working Papers p. 38, via Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World p. 307
11 tags
“I don’t believe hate is the best way to motivate people to develop long-term...”
– Douglas Rushkoff, Hate Party
5 tags
“Headlines and shipping lanes aside, it’s becoming clearer that the Arctic Ocean...”
– Andrew C. Revkin, Open Water Circling North Pole? Not Quite
“The Protestant ethic is so deeply engrained in our culture you don’t need...”
– Dalton Conley, Rich Man’s Burden
6 tags
“In China, those who dream of America as a promised land call it the Gold...”
– Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World pp. 162-163
2 tags
“[T]he happiness of letting the world happen.”
– Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World p. 145
“Everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration when we become aware...”
– John Cage from Richard Koslelanetz Conversing with Cage, p. 208 (via Trickster Makes This World p. 145)
August 2008
4 posts
“From errors one gets to know the personality.”
– Pablo Picasso, Picasso on Art, pp. 45 (via Trickster Makes This World p. 136)