affluence produces a lot of boredom
affluence produces a lot of boredom.
affluence produces a lot of boredom.
often times, the best use of a weapon is for would-be opponents to fear you wielding it.
your trick is knowing how often not to use it.
the more aggressively and head on you compete, the more you become like your enemy.
paraphrasing Cringely’s http://ping.fm/ghwf6
“I’ve never visited the Core Data hand-holding playground, but it sounds fun.”
returning to the ongoing discussion about keeping it simple vs obvious, in interface design.
calculating the cost of tools.
human brains consume 25% of our body’s energy.
signing up for 3 classes at Stanford University, this semester.
#code
everyday, conduct an experiment.
“Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?”
reading what one-man shop @Pinboard accomplished in one year.
#code
reading what one-man shop @Pinboard accomplished in one year.
#code
for most of human history, #winter was a life threatening condition.
#happy @solstice !
“it feels like instead of standing on the shoulders of giants, we’re standing on their toes.”
#code
given #Facebook’s complexity, their Timeline interface seems well designed.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“there is no #data like more data.”
http://google.com/search?q=”there+is+no+data+like+more+data”
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
#twuote via @Lola
“technology and humanity… really are the same thing.”
#tech #quote
[secret #5 = Ping / Statuses revised]
[secret #4 = Ping / notTwitter]
[secret #3 = Ping / statuses]
[secret #2 = Ping / micro-blogs]
When you’re faced with a “we need to stop the bleeding” problem, you need a fast decision.
matter drags on time.
“People who make hardware should get their software act together before Apple does for them.”
http://mykl.us/oW7rfU #tech
“Respect means you respond to who the person really is, or what the object really is, not what you imagine it is.”
#quote
“Job creation is a false idol.”
http://mykl.us/qCol81 #governance
“The commonplace of the schoolbooks of tomorrow is the adventure of today.”
(anger + fear) x (ignorance) = hate
I do my work not just to create products, but to advance the #art.
One should never fully trust in the apparent #stupidity or #intelligence of anyone.
#twuote
“If people weren’t so tied to their home equity, would there be massively more population shifts among the states?”
“Militarism springs from the same psychological deficit that requires an endless series of enemies…”
“Jobs’ greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.”
http://mykl.us/oVryNY #tech
“You are what you don’t share.”
“Is disconnecting a cell phone (tower) or a social network any different from trashing a printing press?” – Seth Godin http://mykl.us/qRJOEd
whalers were the first astronauts of American history.
“By taxing estates heavily at death, the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire’s unworthy life.” – Andrew Carnegie
#quote
#history doesn’t always repeat itself, but it usually rhymes. – Seth Godin
http://mykl.us/p939v6 #quote
“America’s intellectual-property system is a travesty which threatens the wealth and welfare of the whole world.”
“Asking a site-based service to make us free, is like asking a railroad to make us a car.”
the first known #war over a hydrocarbon deposit was in 312 BCE, in the Middle East.
most services aren’t killed by competitors, they kill themselves. – Tom Anderson
(#tech paraphrased at http://mykl.us/mZeSRI)
“Many companies are institutionally afraid of change. Apple is afraid of stagnation.” – John Gruber
http://mykl.us/pzyN9I #tech
“Losing that kind of talent and innovation to a legal system is the real crime.” – Craig Hockenberry
http://mykl.us/orGK1n #tech
Most of the time, when friends #recommend something, they just want YOU to #validate their choice (whether it was right or wrong).
“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.” – Walker Percy
“The days of PC-era lock-in are dead. Build something for the users… and you can actually win our business.”
http://mykl.us/qTte0l #tech
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished.†– John Adams
(#quote via http://ping.fm/2FwaZ)
“At the end of the day this deal isn’t about royalties. It is about trying to kill #Android.â€
http://mykl.us/kTzafg #tech
“If you want to piss an engineer off, duplicate his hard work.” – @Rands
#tech #twoute
“The mobile industry is currently in a state of patent warfare.” – Ryan Kim
http://ping.fm/tstIk #tech
“The very long tail of the future is already here.”
http://mykl.us/kcclz8
#tech
“the future is unevenly distributed.”
#tech #quote
“Are we being good ancestors?”
#history #quote
http://mykl.us/jFVg1Z
“(Finland is) finally getting out of that cycle, where everything revolves around Nokia.” – Peter Vesterbacka http://mykl.us/kYuwqX #tech
#computing #history: Steve Jobs’s Closing Keynote at WWDC 1997, before he was CEO, again. http://df4.us/hv8
“history, it’s actually a way to get a head start on life.” – Dave Winer http://mykl.us/iKzu79 #quote
“Whenever a hardware maker has to put the name of another company in its ads as a selling point, it may already have lost.” – @GlennF #biz
better to bang your head against a project you love, than work you hate.
a rarity is more precious. offer advice accordingly.
a rarity is more precious. give advise accordingly.
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
(#quote via @Lola)
“The #internet, it turns out, is a movement, and every time someone tries to own it, they fail.” – Seth Godin http://mykl.us/mnjMEa #tech
“The Open Source community is building business models that may finally put some security in data security.” http://mykl.us/j6WRMY #tech
“This is National Security… which means ethical and common sense rules are suspended without question.” http://ping.fm/D9DVn #tech
“our data is the computer” – Robert X. Cringely http://mykl.us/msYo9d #tech
“the smartphone wars are now the first shots in the Internet wars.” – Brian S. Hall http://ping.fm/vPqII #tech
“People #change slower than they think.” – @Rands #twuote
“the real problem with peasant farming is that it means that the farmers have to live as peasants.” – Matt Ridley http://mykl.us/lIX07Z
the latecomers’ worldview includes an imperative: don’t be left out. – Seth Godin http://mykl.us/mNRvm0 #biz
crops as destiny: reading @MattWRidley’s “Perishability and Democracy”. http://mykl.us/lYatDT #thinker
“what if X were utterly ubiquitous and free — what could we do then?” – Robert X. Cringely http://mykl.us/ky3xBX #future #tech
“This is a hardware war and Google so far is winning… competitors don’t even realize that’s what is going-on.” http://mykl.us/ky3xBX #tech
“the address bar is like the back door.” – Dave Winer http://mykl.us/kpXY86 #tech
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” – Loran Eiseley #quote
“look for heavy activity in this space as Microsoft assimilates and Google constructs.” – Robert X. Cringely http://mykl.us/lXmHBk
a domain name should be an easy thing to allocate, like a Save File dialog box – Dave Winer http://ping.fm/KDtTc #tech
wooden outdoor fireplace hut by Haugen/Zohar Architects http://ping.fm/qfXJU
wooden outdoor fireplace hut by Haugen/Zohar Architects http://ping.fm/85bJi
this $25 personal computer fits in your pocket. just plug in a… http://ping.fm/nWhIp
the dogs of war http://ping.fm/g05oc
ingredients http://ping.fm/geBdD
if you put hydrogen into a thin skinned container, and release the container into an oxygen rich atmosphere, it will float. if you put a burning match to that hydrogen, it will burst into intense flames.
if you mix one part hydrogen with two parts oxygen inside a thin membrane, you might have a water balloon. if you disperse its contents in the atmosphere, it will probably fall to the ground as rain. you can drink it. it is impossible to light on fire.
sometimes innovation is not an option.
“Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in the world.” http://ping.fm/qjO9N
is information a measurement of entropy?
Teddy Roosevelt and Al Gore became much more radical about protecting nature after losing a presidential election. http://ping.fm/5krmF
BillB: @rands The manual is a catalog of the product’s flaws. http://ping.fm/kSTii
“post PC” doesn’t mean “sans PC” – Michael Gartenberg http://ping.fm/87RyM #tech
“It’s not innovation until it gets built.†– Garry Tan #twech
“#Google is essentially a maker of very capital-intensive, full-custom, warehouse-scale computers.” http://ping.fm/9x1Tu #hardware #company
“VC is a cancer.” – Justin Williams http://ping.fm/P0C6b #tech
“If we’re going to spend time, apparently, it better be perfect…” – Seth Godin http://ping.fm/sKbGX
” Discovery and invention are the same process.” – Kevin Kelly http://mykl.us/gN9LZ2 #art
“Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.” – Alan Kay http://mykl.us/gQqmwQ #tech #quote
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