January 2012
10 posts
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglass
(via good-morning-fire-eater, thesearepeopleyouknow)
“They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his...”
– The Fountain (via ksquared)
“Olajuwon, who endorsed a sneaker made by Spalding which retailed for $35, is one...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olajuwon#Off_the_court
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
8 posts
“I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his...”
– from “Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert (via neighborbit)
“According to one of my students at Yale, where I taught English in the last...”
– William Deresiewicz, Generation Sell
An Elephant Burial →
“Cynthia Moss, in Elephant Memories, describes the response of elephants in Amboseli National Park when a poacher’s bullet entered the lungs of a young female, Tina.”
October 2011
8 posts
“If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be
very very...”
– Richard Stallman’s Rider
“[Programmers] imagine we spend most of our time power-typing, curly braces and...”
– Douglas Crockford
“Sometimes I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll
“It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if...”
– Stephen Fry (via bringtheruckuss)
“infosuicide”
– Eric Meyer, Searching For Mark Pilgrim
WatchThe Fountain (2006)
September 2011
14 posts
“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure
“I promise you a future, impossible things,Justice and freedom and life without...”
– Tony Kushner, “An Epithalamion” from Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer
You Are Not Dead →
“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the...”
– Pablo Neruda
14 tags
7 tags
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein (via thelittlephilosopher)
August 2011
4 posts
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the...”
– John Maynard Keynes (via amodernmanifesto)
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (source)
“Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living? Kubrick:...”
aesthetically uninteresting →
themadeshop:
It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and values in this country is one of the things that’s gutted our generation. All the things that my parents said to me, like “It’s really important not to lie.” OK, check, got it. I nod at that but I really don’t feel it. Until I get to be about 30 and I realize that if I lie to you, I also can’t trust...
July 2011
17 posts
“We find robust patterns of organization and activity in systems that have no...”
– John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, Complex Adaptive Systems
My friend is doing something cool →
You should read it. It’s good.
“Art and nothing but art, we have art in order not to die of truth.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“To speak clearly, to the extent to which I hope, to which I worry about a truth...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
