It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself.
– John Gruber, Facebook Home and Dogfooding
Most of the stuff in a backpack is carried to overcome a lack of knowledge.
– Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools Review of Ultralight Backpackin’ Tips
One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the most awful, ridiculous, essential idea, and own it. Promote it breathlessly, until you’re acquired or you take over the world. Bitcoin is playing out in a similar way. It asks its users to forget about central banking in the same way Steve Jobs asked iPhone users to forget about the mouse.
– Paul Ford, Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven
It’s a desperate thing to need everybody to be really happy with everything you say
– Louis C.K., quoted in The Joke’s on Louis C.K.
One of the things that struck me very early on and that continues to puzzle me is the way in which some forms of knowledge are considered more valuable than others, and they tend to break along educational lines. College education is considered of higher status than the kind of education that lets a person know how to repair an engine, or design a truck that’s going to be safer for the workers, or organize things.
– Robin Nagle, quoted in The Secret World of ‘Garbagemen’
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions never lie to you.
– Roger Ebert, quoted in Roger Ebert, Movie Critic of the Mainstream, Dies at 70
Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information became less than the cost of throwing it away.
– George Dyson, The digital big bang
Management only exists to compensate for its own poor hiring decisions.
– Scott Adams, The Management-free Organization
When you share a smile or laugh with someone face to face, a discernible synchrony emerges between you, as your gestures and biochemistries, even your respective neural firings, come to mirror each other. It’s micro-moments like these, in which a wave of good feeling rolls through two brains and bodies at once, that build your capacity to empathize as well as to improve your health. If you don’t regularly exercise this capacity, it withers.
– Barbara L. Frederickson, Your Phone vs. Your Heart
