June 2009
55 posts
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
– H.L. Mencken, (via Adventures of an inquiring mind)
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. That’s...”
– Steve Jobs, “Sunspots: the strobe edition”
“When the truth fails you, you have no choice but to abandon it.”
– Blair Waldorf (via fuckyeahleightonmeester)
“You know you’re getting old when the supermarket plays music you really...”
– John Gruber, Twitter / John Gruber: You know you’re getting ol …
“Our knowledge of acoustics is still incomplete,” Bell said, “but he,...”
– Joshua Bell, “Pearls Before Breakfast”
“I’m typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!!”
– Kanye West, “UNTITLED”
“I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an...”
– Giles Coren, “Read Giles Coren’s letter to Times subs”
“We believe that great nations find the means to do what will make them and keep...”
– Ars Technica, “Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015”
“I have no idea what makes one operating system work better than another, except...”
– Dan Lyons, “Why We Need Steve Jobs”
“There are not two parts to that answer. I like it. I’m sorry. I’m...”
– Joss Whedon, “Q&A with Joss Whedon, writer, producer and director”
“There’s a whole class of recent switchers who define “Apple fanboy” as “anyone...”
– John Gruber, “Mark Cuban Switches to the Mac”
“Nothing sadder than the head of engineering (me) standing over the fax machine,...”
– Andre Torrez, Twitter / Andre Torrez: Nothing sadder than the he …
“Pritchett says he has a model of how game-changing ideas are received over time,...”
– Kerry Howley, “Big ideas: from silly to obvious”
“As for holding one bad grade — or even entire bad subject areas — against...”
– John Gruber, “Regarding Marissa Mayer’s Personnel Decisions”
“One or two generations from now, the impossibility of scrubbing every private...”
– Anil Dash, “Privacy Through Identity Control” (via heather-rivers)
All right.
Let’s see where this takes us.