Posts under ‘Quotes’

Guy Kawasaki’s Advice: Live With Mom and Dad

Ashley and Heather informed us they are planning to live at home after college to pay off student loans and save some money. It brought to mind Guy Kawasaki’s famous commencement speech: #10: Live off your parents as long as possible. I was a diligent Oriental in high school and college. I took college-level classes [...]

On Understanding — Making the Effort

From Science of Doom’s About this Blog page: It’s easy to trade blows on blogs. It’s harder to understand a new point of view. Or to consider that a different point of view might be right. And yet, more constructive for everyone if we take a moment, a day even, and try and really understand [...]

On Success

“Most of the things we try fail.” —Jonathan Perlow, software engineer on the Gmail front end Yet, without trying, there can be no success. ___ Hat tip: Louis Gray. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lintmachine/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Buzz Kill

Watch Dave Winer’s opinion of Google Buzz drive off the cliff: Twitter-killing follow-up. (Scripting News). http://r2.ly/xcex # My first Buzz tweet. Not sure if you’ll be able to read this. Let me know. http://r2.ly/xcp7 # After 15 minutes I remember that Google is mean and distrusting and filled with side-goals that have nothing to do with [...]

Love Is…

This is but one of Hugh MacLeod’s “love” series of prints. ___ Credit: Image by Hugh MacLeod, displayed under Creative Commons license.

Bruce Schneier on Digital Spying

Congress may revive a bill prohibiting U.S. tech companies from working with governments that digitally spy on their citizens. Bruce Schneier responds: Of course, the bill won’t go anywhere, but shouldn’t someone inform those members of Congress about what’s been going on in the United States for the past eight years? —Bruce Schneier Touché. ___ Photo [...]

Word Cloud of President Obama’s Speech

I used Wordle to create a word cloud of President Obama’s speech to students.

On Congregationalism

No one will ever stand up in most of your churches and say something really stupid, and that’s a shame, because the pastor shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun. —iMonk.

On Words and Meaning

We choose our words. We don’t choose our meaning. —Larry Lessig ___ MPEP § 2111.01(IV), notwithstanding.

Quote of the Day — Plato

Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings [...]