“The cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

💬 Federico Fellini

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”

💬 Martin Scorsese

Notes on newsletters

“my own theory was that, again, you couldn’t really write enough by yourself to justify $5 or $10 a month when the Economist or New Yorker paywall cost much the same for vastly more.”

💬 Benedict Evans

“In tech we don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, we stand on their toes.”

💬 Dave Winer

“Everything is data, but data isn’t everything.”

💬 Pauline Bart

“Life is a constant process of dying.”

💬 Arthur Schopenhauer

“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”

💬 Chuang Tzu

”Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon”.

💬 Woody Allen

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

💬 Elbert Hubbard

“He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.”

💬 Richard Hamming

“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