“Most of the things we try fail.”
—Jonathan Perlow, software engineer on the Gmail front end
Yet, without trying, there can be no success.
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Hat tip: Louis Gray.
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lintmachine/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Posts under ‘Quotes’
On Success
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 delighting users. #
When [...]
Love Is…
This is but one of Hugh MacLeod’s “love” series of prints.
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Credit: Image by Hugh MacLeod, displayed under Creative Commons license.
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
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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 [...]
Quote of the Day — Jeff Moriarty
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