January 2012
3 posts
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase,...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you know Apple, use it. If you know Vista, ask yourself why, then use it.”
– Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups
“The milkman is dead, but we drink more milk than ever.”
– Baratunde Thurston in Fast Company’s article on Generation Flux
December 2011
3 posts
“If you want to be Mark Zuckerberg, the best you’re ever going to be is...”
– Ashton Kutcher in Startup School
“That was the day I lost my religion. That was the day I found my faith.”
– Sanjuro instructor Glenn Delikan in Conversations with the Devil
“Hi. This is LOuie. It seriously is me. Im even going to leave the O stuipdly...”
– Louis CK starts his email to people that bought his new film
October 2011
3 posts
“..in richer and in poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to...”
– Katrin’s words have an edge
“You can’t do extraordinary things, by attempting ordinary things.”
– My entrepreneur hero Vinod Khosla in an interview
September 2011
2 posts
“The truth is, nobody can see the truth anymore.”
– Paul Bucheit on being nothing
“Once you are free you’re forced to ask who you are.”
– Anon (picked up from Burning Man)
August 2011
1 post
“When you write a poem, you don’t always know what’s provoking it...”
– Simon Armitage’s words mediated by Miranda Sawyer in the Observer column
July 2011
1 post
“Kaotada võib ainult seda, mille sa nagunii kaotaksid.”
– Maris Heinaru reisimisest, otsimisest ja leidmisest
June 2011
2 posts
“Good Judgment Comes with Experience, But Experience Comes from Bad Judgment”
– Mark Suster mediating someone’s words in the context of making startup mistakes
“Character is built when no one is watching.”
– John Wooden
April 2011
1 post
“Open-source facial recognition is relatively advanced while other-body-part...”
– A startup fighting porn spam problem in video chats
March 2011
1 post
“Japan has always been a country living simoltaneously in the both the future and...”
– John Oliver on episode 147 of The Bugle
February 2011
3 posts
“Every big idea that works grew out of a small idea that worked.”
– Dan Gould interviewed by IdeaMensch
“Me oleme nii ennast täis, et ise ka ei mahu eneste sisse ära.”
– Tõnu Oja intervjuu EPL-le
Rough translation: we are so foll of ourselves we don’t even fit into ourselves.
“LubePanda is great for improving sex between people and between pandas. We do...”
– LubePanda launched
January 2011
7 posts
“On the far right, you have the many dudes who think Megan Fox is the sexiest...”
– Christian Rudder on OK Cupid’s blog on the mathematics of beauty
“There’s no 12 step program for this”
– Slogan of The Lingerie Addict
“Tegelikult võiks Veerpaluga reklaamid Kuldmunal omaette kategoorias olla.”
– Ahto Aaremäe Best Marketingis
“You weren’t supposed to come to this page. Continue to buy stuff, or The...”
– Error message on the Onion store
“Thank you god… for making me an atheist!”
– Ricky Cervais at Golden Globe awards
“The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment...”
– Achilles in Troy
November 2010
4 posts
“Look closer and closer and look further and further and listen harder and harder...”
– Rob Ryan on one of his works, on display in Air Gallery until November 20th.
“GB: Whilst you are on here would you like to explain why you & your party...”
– A twitter user asks a question from Gordon Brown (or his wife)
“I have adopted a new — if I may say, “zen” — approach to...”
– Sten Tamkivi’s work email autoreply.
“Do not run after money. You will find that money runs faster than you do.”
– Attique Rabbani in a letter to his daughter
October 2010
5 posts
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol,...”
– Carl Jung quoted in The Power Of Full Engagement
“Exception: sometimes, repetition of the same thing can be surprising. For an...”
– From Groupon writers’ style guide. Pure brilliancy.
“I cannot afford to die. It will ruin my image.”
– Fitness guru Jack LaLanne
PS. Fully conscious that recent tonality has been excessively morbid here, for a reason. Not to worry, lighter quotes to return soon.
“Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a...”
– Mary Frye
“Our brains and bodies are like cell phones. We usually have too many...”
– Comment to Not Enough Time? Try Doing Nothing by Peter Bregman
September 2010
2 posts
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applecoffee:
Kõik, mida ma ei tohi mõelda, mõtleb mind. See, mida ma ei julge, eriti.
Kõik, mida olen taibanud, ei aita. Ja ega seda palju olegi.
Doris Kareva
August 2010
1 post
“Some things in life can only be learned in the presence of death.”
– Unless someone else said it first somewhere, it belongs to yours truly.
June 2010
4 posts
“I’m not saying porn isn’t progress, but I do think that over the long run it...”
– Jesse Bering in Scientific American
“Salad is no food! Salad is what food eats.”
– A standup comedian in Brainwash, my new favourite laundry. (Also the only laundry I’ve even been to.)
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
“Behind every great man there’s a great woman, sometimes a couple of great...”
– Anon.
May 2010
4 posts
“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble,...”
– Peter Altenberg (via Cultural Amnesia)
“The next task is to stoke growth and cut unemployment (now over 15%). After...”
– Economist writes about Estonia in the light of euro
“Look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they...”
– Warren Buffet. (via Jason Calacanis pointing out that Mark Zuckerberk is back-stabber type.)
“The campaign has taken place in the context of a prolonged decline in our...”
– Andy Zaltzman on the British election in Guardian.
April 2010
1 post
“Q: Do you believe in abortion?
A: There are a number of people I have come...”
– Charles Saatchi in his rather witty book Question where he answers question from art and advertising to god or banks.
March 2010
6 posts
“/…/ tuleb aktiivselt osaleda ja vaielda, mitte pea norus saksa täpsusega...”
– Jaanus Kase kirjutab oma blogis netikasiinode tegevuse piiramisest. Väga mõistlik jutt, mina paremini ja täpsemalt ei oskaks seda sõnastada.
“Sometimes you can’t jump a twenty foot chasm in two ten foot leaps.”
– Cennyd Bowles writes about the need to make bold calls in his blog post about pitfalls of A/B testing