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Aug 14, 2008 12:58am
“ What will everyone involved give up to become awesome? Alternately, how will you know when this project has failed and should be euthanized? ” - Ideas, Execution, and the Rare Auteur | 43 Folders
Aug 14, 2008 12:58am
“ Who is the auteur here? Who in your organization gets to tell everyone else to shut up and follow his or her quirky vision and ridiculous obsessions? These obsessions matter. ” - Ideas, Execution, and the Rare Auteur | 43 Folders
Aug 14, 2008 12:55am
“ Mobile computing alone will bring in more money than the company’s desktop business at some point in the future. And overseas revenues, at 52% of the company’s total now, could climb as high as 65%. So it looks like Google has a lot further to go before the growth stops. ” - Mad Money: Googling Eric Schmidt - Mad Cap Recap - CNBC.com
Aug 13, 2008 11:41pm
“ Organizing a camp for (super)heroes is no small feat, but someone needs to do it. It will be a gathering of heroes, sharing their heroic acts and pitching their desire to collaborate with other heroes on future heroic acts. Heroic acts include, but are not limited to, creating stuff that changes the world, empowers the disempowered, creates world peace, saves the planet, makes people happy, and makes a real difference in your local community. ” - Eventbrite - HeroCamp
Aug 13, 2008 10:28pm
“ The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. ” - Corporate Information - Google User Experience
Aug 13, 2008 7:09pm
“ The guy who’s on hunger strike for some political cause is still relying on his midbrain dopamine neurons, just like a monkey getting a treat,” Montague says. “His brain simply values the cause more than it values dinner. ” - Seed: A New State of Mind
Aug 13, 2008 7:07pm
“ The brain learns how to be right by focusing on what it got wrong. ” - Seed: A New State of Mind
Aug 13, 2008 11:43am
“ Shirky’s book is full of it. It shifts attention to the right level, away from the tools and to what people do with them. It also contains the dilemma that the entire book grapples with: how to write about technology once that technology has become mundane? Lastly, it leaves a lot of things out. How do technologies become mundane? Which ones are legitimate and which ones are not? Why are some providers of ‘boring technologies’ worth billions (e.g. YouTube) while others subject to high-pressure litigation (e.g. ThePirateBay)? But Shirky doesn’t want to go there, he prefers to keep the message safe and positive. ” - Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
Aug 13, 2008 3:33am
“ And my answer was: Business requirements are bullshit! ” - Stevey’s Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
Aug 12, 2008 1:01am

Are We Really Separated by Six Degrees of Separation? Microsoft Research Says "Yes"

Aug 12, 2008 12:51am

Technologys Next Wave: Transforming Teamwork and Travel? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Aug 12, 2008 12:50am
“ Newspaper publishers are facing a perfect storm thanks to three megatrends: rising inflation, America’s growing green conscience and disruptive technology. To succeed in this era of great change, they need to think about how to make lemonade out of these perceived lemons. Unfortunately, so far, they haven’t. Here’s my advice. ” - Micro Persuasion: How Newspapers Can Turn Problems Into Profit
Aug 12, 2008 12:47am
“ I feel conflicted about the decision I have learned that the Expo has made to do a publicity deal with Izea/PayPerPost, who are scumbags. ” - Marshall Kirkpatrick » How to Keep Track of the Margins of Your Blogosphere
Aug 12, 2008 12:38am
“ MUJI is not a brand whose value rests in the frills and “extras” it adds to its products. MUJI is simplicity - but a simplicity achieved through a complexity of thought and design. MUJI’s streamlining is the result of the careful elmination and subtraction of gratuitous features and design unrelated to function. MUJI, the brand, is rational, and free of agenda, doctrine, and “isms.” The MUJI concept derives from us continuously asking, “What is best from an individual’s point of view?” MUJI aspires to modesty and plainness, the better to adapt and shape itself to the styles, preferences, and practices of as wide a group of people as possible. This is the single most important reason people embrace MUJI. MUJI - in its deliberate pursuit of the pure and the ordinary - achieves the extraordinary. ” - MUJI U.S.A. Limited
Aug 10, 2008 10:54pm
“ A friend who moved to Silicon Valley in the late 90s said the worst thing about living there was the low quality of the eavesdropping. ” - Cities and Ambition
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