XKCD’s “We Love the Internet” reenacted with Lessig, Gaiman, Nielsen Haydens, Schneier, and many others! (via)
Want to succeed? Try failing
“Silicon Valley celebrates its successes, but the failure rate is generally much, much higher. But what makes the Valley different than other entrepreneur-rich areas is how it deals with those failures. Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in this entrepreneur though leader lecture given at Stanford University, says that only a company that can deal with failure and still make money has any chance of succeeding. The talk’s an old one – from 2004 – but the themes still resonate today.” -> video on VentureBeat (via Gabor’s Positive Thoughts)
So wrong on so many levels. And awesome. (via @threepwood)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
– Vincent T. Lombardi (via alexalbrecht)
Rain Orchestra (via marfil)
The problem with designing something that’s totally idiot proof is that society is always designing a better idiot.
– Steve Jobs
Dara O’Brian - very worth reposting ;)
iPad, now with cameras (via Boing Boing)
kryz:
Inadequacies by Toby Lunchbreath
People say sometimes, “You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world.” I don’t feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done. All of the graphical-user interface stuff that we did with the Macintosh was pioneered at Xerox PARC [the company’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center] and with Doug Engelbart at SRI [a future-oriented think tank at Stanford] in the mid-’70s. And here we are, just about the mid-’90s, and it’s kind of commonplace now. But it’s about a 10-to-20-year lag. That’s a long time. The reason for that is, it seems to take a very unique combination of technology, talent, business and marketing and luck to make significant change in our industry. It hasn’t happened that often.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Want to succeed? Try failing
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
INSTANT BAZINGA!
"The problem with designing something that’s totally idiot proof is that society is always designing a better idiot."
"People say sometimes, “You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world.” I don’t feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done. All of the graphical-user interface stuff that we did with the Macintosh was pioneered at Xerox PARC [the company’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center] and with Doug Engelbart at SRI [a future-oriented think tank at Stanford] in the mid-’70s. And here we are, just about the mid-’90s, and it’s kind of commonplace now. But it’s about a 10-to-20-year lag. That’s a long time. The reason for that is, it seems to take a very unique combination of technology, talent, business and marketing and luck to make significant change in our industry. It hasn’t happened that often."
