Other people's thoughts

Jul 1
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.” Iris Murdoch

Jun 4
“It’s better to be safe than sorry” is such crap. You know what’t better than being safe? Being AWESOME.” Jeff Atwood on Slideshare

May 1
“Over time, all marketing strategies result in shitty clickthrough rates.” The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs by Andrew Chen

Apr 15
“More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” Woody Allen (his Complete Prose is great)

Mar 30
“One Millwall fan was shocked at the time. He went to see a fight and a football match broke out!” From the brilliant essay about martial arts by David Weeks

Mar 10

Success is like being pregnant. Everybody congratulates you, But nobody knows how many times you were fucked before you got there


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Jan 16
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jan 11
“If you know Apple, use it. If you know Vista, ask yourself why, then use it.” Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups

Jan 9
“The milkman is dead, but we drink more milk than ever.” Baratunde Thurston in Fast Company’s article on Generation Flux