January 2012
3 posts
“I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on...”
– Warren Buffett Ready to Take Republicans’ Tax Challenge Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/11/warren-buffett-to-mitch-mcconnell-put-up-or-shut-up/#ixzz1jG67vs7g (via joshkinberg)
Word.
December 2011
1 post
“When I was 18, I spent one night trying to paint LATE AGAIN in big silver bubble...”
– Banksy
Necessity being the mother of invention and all.
Or, don’t miss the exact move you should make when it’s staring you right in the face. (via brycedotvc)
Love this story.
November 2011
3 posts
“Mark Lucovsky isn’t just a man who goaded Steve Ballmer into chucking a chair...”
– Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st nCentury Linux’ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/cloud-foundry/all/1
October 2011
18 posts
“The designer fills many a waste-basket in order to produce one good idea”
– Paul Rand (via gregmelander)
“When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how...”
– Andy quotes Douglas Rushkoff in our latest announcement. (via fred-wilson)
We live in amazing times.
“Secrets to happiness: Buy experiences instead of things; buy many small...”
– The Haimish Line - NYTimes.com (via roelofbotha)
“As the maker movement marches forward, we’ve hit a lot of milestones: a place to...”
– How Open-Sourced Hardware is Kickstarting Kickstarter. (via kickstarter)
“There are so few free, delightful, polished gems like this.”
– Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life
Dear Tumblr ...
tedr:
Dear Tumblr,
You’v been recently valued by skilled investors at $800 million.
Now could you please make phone and tablet apps that rate higher than 2 out of 5 stars. Or just make a HTML5 app designed for mobile usage.
Kthxbai
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“They see the protesters as an entertaining sideshow, little more than flash mobs...”
– In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated -New York Times
“What distinguished the Bell Labs team is that, from the beginning, they focused...”
– From The Economist article “Unix’s Founding Fathers”
Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C language and one of the key members of the team behind Unix, passed away yesterday at the age of 70.
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“”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them...”
– Steve Jobs
“The whole piece of Yahoo.”
– Jack Ma, in response to an China 2.0 conference attendee’s question as to what part of Yahoo he was interested in buying. The founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo Inc.
September 2011
2 posts
“People who accomplished great things, she noticed, often combined a passion for...”
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What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?
NY Times Magazine - Education Edition
WatchIn the New Yorker, Ian Frazier writes about Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist who makes kinetic sculptures that walk on the beach called Strandbeests.
The video of these creations ‘walking’ along the beach is surreal.
August 2011
9 posts
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“The number of Federal data centers has more than quadrupled since 1998, from 432...”
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Kundra Reflects: How Cash-For-Clunkers Put Government On The Road To Cloud Computing
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
4 posts
“Cloud computing: A fundamental landscape change. “We’ve spent the past 40 years...”
– Bill Gurley Explains How Twitter Will Rule The World And Why Groupon Won’t (via rafer)
May 2011
6 posts
April 2011
5 posts
