February 2012
7 posts
January 2012
13 posts
Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to...
– Jony Ive (From Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson)
(via The Russians Used A Pencil which was sent to me by Wells Baum)
In sports, the only thing a player can truly control is effort. The same applies...
– Mark Cuban via Business Insider (via Gabor’s Positive Thoughts)
December 2011
16 posts
I hope I’m wrong, but I think this is just the difference between putting your...
– John Gruber on Open Sourcing Web OS (via ran-dom)
My grandfather used to say: “Life is astonishingly short. Now, in my memory, it...
– Franz Kafka, ‘The Next Village’. This is the entire text of the story. It’s really a fragment rescued by his friend Max Brod, but like many of these it’s usually published on its own. As a paragraph in a larger work it could be funny; as a standalone piece it is haunting. (via mrgan)
November 2011
8 posts
How To Properly Tie Cables →
October 2011
7 posts
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...
– From Steve Jobs’ 2005 Sanford commencement address (via Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘It Means to Say Your Goodbyes’)
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to...
– From Steve Jobs’ 2005 Sanford commencement address (via ‘Your Time is Limited’)