February 2012
“What I find really interesting is emergent behaviors from only a few lines of...”
– Minecraft News - Weekly Updates, Pocket Edition & More - News - Minecraft Forum
“Once they join Prime, Amazon’s customers’ gross merchandise volume grows from...”
– Amazon Prime: 5 Million Members, 20 Percent Growth | Practical eCommerce (via soxiam)
“Someone once asked Allen Ginsberg how one becomes a prophet, and he simply...”
– Frank Chimero - Louis CK’s Shameful Dirty Comedy
“People who think well, write well. Woolly minded people write woolly memos,...”
– 10 tips on writing from legendary ad man David Ogilvy (via curiositycounts)
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click...”
– This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek
“In 1991, Cynthia McLemore, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania, found...”
– Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns - NYTimes.com
“But in 2011, Dr. Liberman conducted an analysis of nearly 12,000 phone...”
– Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns - NYTimes.com
“Patients come in with their iPhones and show me how they look on [Apple’s video...”
– The “FaceTime Facelift”: Plastic Surgeons See iPhones Increase Demand for Cosmetic Procedures
“Starting your day as a producer means that your information consumption has...”
– Information Diet | 500 Words before 8am
“At this hypothetical coffee shop with a “pay-what-you-want-for-other-customers”...”
– Can I Buy You a Cup of Coffee? | Center for Advanced Hindsight
nickmiller:
“I want you to imagine a world where writing is a very uncool talent. Imagine that there’s very little money in it. Imagine that your parents will hate you for embracing it, that your friends will make fun of you, that no girl will be impressed by it. Imagine that you’ll never truly be fulfilled by anything that you write. Imagine a life stacked with many lonely days and nights....
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,...”
– Socrates (via psychotherapy)
“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in...”
– Woz on Creativity: Work Alone | Brain Pickings
“RCS is considered in remission when patients can cite a specific rule for when...”
– The heartbreak of Random Capitalization Syndrome - mike’s web log
“You can’t copy and think the only thing that will happen is that people will be...”
– The Language of Design | Drawar
“Science and public policy have traditionally been focused solely on remediating...”
– This Will Make You Smarter: 151 Big Thinkers Each Pick a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit | Brain Pickings
“The world outside would be easier to live in if we were all machines.”
– Andy Warhol (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women react badly,”...”
– Target, Google, and privacy | Felix Salmon (via iamdanw)
“Assuming there is indifference in the matter of choice between competing...”
– The Law of Competing Standards - Farnam Street at Farnam Street
“I’ve always said that you can tell what a company is most worried about by...”
– …that is an amazingly insightful and helpful guideline. Thanks John; The daily irrelevant » ANZ rewards staff with holiday while customers get rates pain (via brocatus)
“Incessant new beginnings lead to sterility - Wallace Stevens”
– http://files.audc.org/mit/Class 08/VenturiAndScottBrown_UglyAndOrdinaryArchitectureOrTheDecoratedShed.pdf
“When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...”
– Rudy Rucker (via wilwheaton)
“There’s something to doing less, having less, building something for just a...”
– Russell Davies - Secondary attention and the little boxes of sound (via bashford)
“The user observations that Moradganjeh documents are equally interesting. He...”
– Rimino, A Radical Concept For The Future Of Mobile Computing | Co.Design: business + innovation + design (via iamdanw)
Polo Puzzle: What Goes Into a $155 Price Tag? -... →
“when coauthors were closer together, their papers tended to be of significantly...”
– Group sync « Mind Hacks
“U-Haul is a truck, van and car rental company. Their website will quote you...”
– Leaving Las Vegas, not (via iamdanw)
“Another world is not only possible, she’s on the way and, on a quiet day,...”
– Arundhati Roy - Wikiquote
“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and...”
– George Orwell, Why Socialists Don’t Believe in Fun (via imbricates)
“You can make the wrong decision three times and get it right on the fourth...”
– Phil Sugar
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Phil Sugar
(via fred-wilson)