February 2012
1 post
“The only good matador is a fatally injured, suffering matador.”
– TofuJesus on Tumblr
January 2012
8 posts
“To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly...”
– Haruki Murakami
My life in two sentences.
josephxvx:
Uplifting things.
Lifting up things.
“Our sweet tooth is an evolved instinctual preference for high-energy foods. It...”
– Dan Dennett
November 2011
2 posts
“The dozens of excuses that your mind fabricates when you’re tired or short...”
– Mark Lauren
September 2011
3 posts
“Our greatness and efficiency crumbles away not all at once but...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
For your montage.
“To suppress a truth is to give it force beyond endurance.”
– Kung Fu
August 2011
3 posts
“We would die standing proud, on our feet, making a statement to the world. We...”
– Leon Weinstein, fighter and Warsaw ghetto survivor (source)
“Three simple rules of thumb for Web developers, UX people, designers:
1. Can I...”
– Karl Dubost (source)
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
“Understanding is putting things into thought. Design is putting thought into...”
– Information Architects, Inc.
May 2011
2 posts
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Marcus Aurelius
April 2011
7 posts
“People have to realise that an idea is worth nothing. A good idea with great...”
– Andrew Lawson (TaxiSurfer)
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days...”
– Jack London
“To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“If you think you can’t, you’re right. If you think you can,...”
– Ken Hatton
“First ask yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epicetetus
“How much better to know what we have dared to live our dreams than to live our...”
– Gilbert E. Kaplan
December 2010
3 posts
“I dare to hope that through these pages the world of the sixteenth century may...”
– Preface to The Anabaptist Story by William Roscoe Estep
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do...”
– H. Thurman
“Control needs to be proportional to communication.
Control should only be...”
– NL, comment on Hacker News.
October 2010
2 posts
“If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer’s grandmother (source)
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power...”
– Goethe
September 2010
2 posts
“UI design = white space
UX design = mental space”
– Comment on Hacker News
“And the whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort...”
– Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia Clothing
August 2010
1 post
“Debates over terminology and semantics are for archivists and academics. If...”
– Ryan Freitas
July 2010
2 posts
“The Malkovich bias: The tendency to believe everyone uses the web like you do.”
– Lean Usability
Reading code like reading the Talmud
Work in pairs, thinking out loud to one another.
Argue. If your partner says “this means X”, and you either don’t understand why or you have another opinion, demand an explanation.
Read to understand. Sometimes, when dealing with a chunk of text, it’s easier to figure out the middle *after* you understand what’s on both ends. Therefore, if a fragment of text...
June 2010
2 posts
Remember when?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Hey, Tone. Remember when we all rented that house down the Shore? With the bedbugs? Heh, heh.
Tony Soprano: [nods]
Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: Summer of '78. Carlo, Silvio, Frankie Napoli.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Place up the beach. Sonny Spits from the Bronx rented it? That's where that hippie kid "mysteriously" drowned during that party. Heh, heh.
Tony Soprano: [glares at Paulie]
Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: Hey, Tony. You OK?
Tony Soprano: Yeah, yeah.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You sure, T? You're being kinda quiet.
Tony Soprano: Well, it's 'cause, uh, "remember when" is the lowest form of conversation.
Tony Soprano: [gets up and leaves]
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
– Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snow Evening
May 2010
11 posts
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why the luck stiff
“My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of...”
– Seth Godin
“You don’t just fail at the end, you often fail long before the end.”
– Seth Godin
“… no institution can put all its energies into pursuing its mission; it...”
– Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
“You do not have to spend a lot of time and effort on those who strongly resist...”
– David Hutton, The Change Agents’ Handbook
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not...”
– William Lloyd Garrison in the first issue of his newspaper The Liberator.
“I still see before me a life of toil and trials…, but, justice must be...”
– Frederick Douglass on his decision to found the (anti-slavery) North Star newspaper.
“Instead of acting as an organic cultural touchstone, the modern meme … now...”
– Joe Randazzo editor of The Onion (source)
“We want instant nostalgia, and what we get is manufactured zeitgeist.”
– Joe Randazzo editor of The Onion (source)
“A counter-weight to bullshit.”
– David Simon, describing what a newspaper should be.