September 2007
61 posts
Extreme home DIY in NY (slideshow) →
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or...”
– Nancy Astor
“He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the...”
– Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!—incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that...
Scroogled
The following is an excerpt from Cory Doctorow’s short story “Scroogled,” published in Radar Magazine. “Evening,” Greg said, handing the man his sweaty passport. The officer grunted and swiped it, then stared at his screen, tapping. A lot. He had a little bit of dried food at the corner of his mouth and his tongue crept out and licked at it. “Want to tell me...
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...”
– Thomas A. Edison
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in...
“Don’t you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence?...”
“If you’re not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being...”
– John Alejandro king
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
– Marie Curie
Woz is so proud of his new girlfriend →
Money Quote: She says she’s never met a guy as funny as I am. Or as rich. That’s a joke. Get it? Like she’s only dating me for my money. I’ll tell you, Steve, she’s the best, seriously.
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...”
– George Eliot
2 kinds of 'don't know' →
700 MHz debacle and the google association →
I wrote a few weeks ago about Google’s attempt to influence the rules for redeployment of the 700-MHz radio band in the U.S. for voice and data applications. Google said it would agree to pony up the $4.6 billion auction reserve price if only the FCC would first guarantee to force any eventual winner to keep the frequencies open in a variety of Google-defined ways — ways that were decidedly...
“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet,...”
– Nicholas Chamfort
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from...”
– Casey Stengel
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I’m from the...”
– Ronald Reagan
“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people...”
– Scott Adams
An Interview with Seth Godin →
An example I give is if you’re at a really good sushi bar, you can get a great piece of tuna sashimi or a yellowtail roll that’s better than any you’ve ever had. But it’s not hard for the chef to make those after a couple of years. What’s hard is for the chef to invent something brand new, like miso cod that makes people say, “Wow, I didn’t even come for...
“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known.”
– Walt Disney
The Puppet Master: Love Steve Jobs or hate him,... →
So Steve does things like this because he can. It reaffirms his iron grip over both Apple and Apple’s customers. It’s a lot about ego and a little about business, though with Steve Jobs they are hard to differentiate. Here is something very important to remember about Steve Jobs (and probably the only part of this column that will bother him in the least): most of his business moves are still in...
To all iPhone customers →
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The...”
– A. A. Milne
“What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever...”
– Margot Asquith
Remember 5 Sept
Release the touchscreen ipod already!
Hard work is about taking risks →
Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you’d rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And, after you’ve done that, to do it again the next day.
“Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the...”
– Evan Esar
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon →
Bourne Ultimatum
Pamela Landy: This is Jason Bourne, the toughest target that you have ever tracked.
Pamela Landy: He is really good at staying alive, and trying to kill him and failing... just pisses him off.
“Now is the time for all good men to come to.”
– Walt Kelly