Josh Ritter on The Books
“So throw away those lamentations we both know them all too well. If there’s a Book of Jubilations we’ll have to write it for ourselves. So come and lie beside me baby, let’s write it while we still got time.”
Josh Ritter
Jimmy Breslin on the Hangover of Ideas
“Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.”
Wilson Miner on responsive design
“Responsiveness isn’t just something we can build into our product. It’s an attitude we can adopt. We can learn to listen to the changing environment, to be available to respond.”
Wilson Miner on Nourishment
“What do we want to spend more time with? What shapes us? What nourishes us? What do we want to see grow?”
Wilson Miner on designing the world
“Design is the choices we make about the world we want to live in.”
Paul Saffo on The “Creator” Economy
“Now we are entering a third age in which the central economic actor is someone who both produces and consumes in the same act. I like the term “creator,” as this new kind of actor is doing something more fundamental than the mere sum of their simultaneous production and consumption. Creators are ordinary people whose everyday actions create value.
[…] Thus, just as the time clock symbolized the producer economy and the credit card the consumer economy, the computer mouse is the symbol of the emerging creator economy.”
Paul Saffo viaPierat
Ben Chestnut on Business and Passion
“Do what you love is not the same as love what you do.”
You always hear people say, ‘do what you love, do what you love.’ That’s partly true, but if it’s business, if you start a business doing what you love, it will kill you, it will kill your passion.
If you like to bake and you start a bakery, you will hate baking very soon.
I like ‘love what you do’ better because, it’s kinda like, wherever you are just be good at it, embrace it, love it, and eventually success will find you.
I actually kind of believe that.
But you never forget your passion.”
Jonathan Coulton on Piracy
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.”
Mark Boulton on Edges
“The new canon should bind the content to the device.”
Gene Wolfe on The Part That is More
“No one can say what that means, [to take someone’s life]. The body is a colony of cells. Divided into two major parts, it perishes. But there is no reason to mourn the destruction of a colony of cells: such a colony dies each time a loaf of bread goes into the oven. If a man is no more than such a colony, a man is nothing; but we know instinctively that a man is more. What happens, then, to that part that is more?”
Gene Wolfe Shadow of the Torturer