💬 Quote
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“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”
💬Franklin Jones
”Before having a second brain: “That’s important, I’ll keep it in mind” “After having a second brain: “That’s important, I won’t keep it in mind”
💬Tiago Forte
”Everything interesting begins in the “unimportant and not urgent” quadrant. Eliminating it is the dumbest thing you can do and the worst advice Covey gave.”
💬Venkatesh Rao
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
💬 William Faulkner
“I will die on this hill. Web apps are not as good as native apps. Even apps made on top of web technologies feel worse. I’m looking at you Electron.”
💬 Mcdrifter
“Only one of us now sits on the Supreme Court. By all accounts, he and four of his colleagues — all appointed by Republican presidents, three by a president who instigated a coup against the United States — are getting ready to violate state decisions and, judicial precedent.”
💬 Robert Reich
“Among the unvaccinated, the virus travels unhindered on a highway with multiple off-ramps and refueling stations. In the vaccinated, it gets lost in a maze of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs.”
💬 Craig Spencer
Writing in The Atlantic
”Last September in Europe it cost €119 ($139) to buy enough gas to heat the average home for a year and the continent’s gas-storage facilities were brimming. Today it costs €738 and stocks are scarce.”
💬 The Economist
… via John Naughton
“No true compassion without will, no true will without compassion.”
💬 John Fowles
”How do you build a social media that functions like a healthy, diverse, equitable neighborhood?”
💬 Gregory Manni
Via ‘Manu’ on Social platforms
”All this made me think that now that we have a handful of activities identified, blogging, bookmarking, clicking, chat, email, etc. one could start from scratch and design a computer that just did these things without layers at all.”
💬 Dave Winer
“ I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
💬 Le Corbusier
“There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
💬 D. H. Lawrence
From Lady Chatterley’s Lover
”There is no money in poetry; but then there is no poetry in money, either.”
💬 Robert Graves
“The FTC’s narrative is that Mark Zuckerberg isn’t very good at developing technology, so he built a monopoly instead.”
💬 Matt Stoller
“How we spend our time is how we spend our days. How we spend our days is how our life goes. How our life goes determines whether we thought it was worth living."
💬 Keith Yamashita
“We no longer interact. We transact.”
Om Malik
”To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.”
💬 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
On Finding The Miraculous In The Mechanical
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
via the inimitable Maria Popova