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