People often take the view that standardization is the enemy of creativity. But I think that standards help make creativity possible — by allowing for the establishment of an infrastructure, which then leads to enormous entrepreneurialism, creativity, and competitiveness.
I love this.
It’s only work if somebody makes you do it
- Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes), 1994
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn;t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occured to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
Exactly my thoughts!
Dogs don’t like me. It is a simple law of the universe, like gravity. I am not exaggerating when I say that I have never passed a dog that didnt act as if it thought I was about to help myself to its Pedigree Chum. Dogs that have not moved from the sofa in years will, at the sniff of me passing outside, rise in fury and hurl themselves at shut windows. I have seen tiny dogs, no bigger than a fluffy slipper, jerk little old ladies off their feet and drag them over open ground in a quest to get my blood and sinew. Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
I watched it go - I watched it take so much away. I saw so much life terminating, that I was seriously wondering what was more difficult - whether to live watching death, or just to die.
-Arjuna Seneviratna, a 40-year-old IT consultant from Sri Lanka who witnessed the tsunami
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He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hilton’s The Simple Life. “You can watch that show for six hours,” Cohen says, “and your brain is still empty.”
-Found in Wired’s profile of Bram Cohen
“Logitech recently said that the billionth mouse had been sold. Isn’t that unbelievable? My first thought was that you’d think someone would have come up with a more appropriately dignified name for it by now. ”
-Douglas C. Engelbart, inventor of the mouse in a Business Week interview
The smallest changes can eventually lead to significant improvements in the way things are done, as long as one remains aware that each solution brings new problems.
-philosophy of Michel Foucault as stated in Michel Foucault Resources site
Quite agree with it :) gotta get my hands on his books.. but the thought of reading philosophy is putting me to sleep now!
“Many companies buy software thinking that it will fix their process problems. But that’s like buying Microsoft Word hoping that it will make you a better writer.”
“The Spirit was willing, but the flash was weak”
- Robert Densie, member of the flight development software team for the Mars Exploration Rovers program on the Spirit Rover’s blue screens of deaths due to glitches in the flash memory.