September 2011
A Beautiful Mind
Alicia: How big is the universe?
Nash: Infinite.
Alicia: How do you know?
Nash: I know because all the data indicates it’s infinite.
Alicia: But it hasn’t been proven yet.
Nash: No.
Alicia: You haven’t seen it.
Nash: No.
Alicia: How do you know for sure?
Nash: I don’t, I just believe it.
Alicia: It’s the same with love I guess.
August 2011
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“Roughly 200 years ago, in the 1970s, there was a nice little restaurant on...”
– Once again, Sam Sifton proves why he’s the best restaurant reviewer in the business. (via negevrockcity)
“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are...”
– Steve Jobs (via entrepreneurwisdom)
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“I think the most important thing you can do for your children is sit down to...”
– Ruth Reichl tells Terry Gross why she stopped being a restaurant critic: she wanted to spend more time with her son. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)
Agreed. My family ate together when I was growing up and it’s absolutely vital to raising a good kid.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
Also...
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“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty...”
– Steve Jobs (via stewartmccoy)
Dorkulate With Steve: Turn Feedback Into... →
stevewoolf:
Steve Jobs has often cited this quote from Henry Ford: “If I’d have asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’ “
This is Jobs’s defense of Apple’s reluctance to listen to even its most passionate customers, and the line is a good one to remember the next…
“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via nevver)
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Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation? →
A new paper from some Stanford neuroscientists argues that the function of sleep is to reorganize neural connections - a bit like a disk defrag for the brain - although it’s also a bit like compressing files to make more room, and a bit like a system reset: Synaptic plasticity in sleep: learning, homeostasis and disease
This is a metaphor I’ve used quite a bit personally when thinking...
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evangotlib:
The United States Government had 36 Navy vessels move out to sea ready at a moment’s notice to help with Irene. These ships have the ability to copter in supplies and medical gear. The US Armed Forces is a logistics machine so you know these folks are the best of the best.
At the same time FEMA coordinated with Walmarts, Targets and Home Depots in the midwest and south to make...
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Why the Impossible Happens More Often →
Twenty years ago if I had been paid to convince an audience of reasonable, educated people that in 20 years time we’d have street and satellite maps for the entire world on our personal hand held phone devices — for free — and with street views for many cities — I would not be able to do it. I could not have made an economic case for how this could come about “for free.” It was starkly...
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“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come...”
– Steve Jobs to John Sculley (via ben)
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Remember When House Republicans Voted Against... →
itsfullofstars:
In the US, we rely on the National Hurricane Center to forecast storms. The NHC is in turn a division of the National Weather Service, itself a part of the NOAA. Which, in the GOP’s 2011 budget bill, had its funding slashed by $1.2 billion from what was proposed in the president’s own budget bill, a bill that very notably included a $700 million increase over the previous year...
“The best way to stop being an old employee is to be a new one.”
– Elapsed Time: Act like a new employee every day (via hiten)
Hello, Raleigh!
caterpillarcowboy:
Just arrived for a weekend of Starcraft 2 @ MLG Raleigh. That’s right, I’ll be watching South Koreans who get paid to play video games professionally destroy pasty white dudes for the next 3 days. Totally thrilled.
So awesome.
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
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AAPL →
parislemon:
Ahhhh!!! Apple’s stock!!! Ahhhh!!!!
(It’s down 0.24% today — the Nasdaq as a whole is down 1.29%.)
While many were predicting chaos on the day after Steve Jobs resigned, and there was a massive initial plunge in after-hours trading last night, the market just voted in a big way for Tim Cook today. And rightfully so.
Keep calm and carry on, people.
I was really hoping to buy...
Wired gigabit is more than ten times better than...
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“In the tablet world, we’re going to become better than number one. We call it...”
– Eric Cador, HP (via Gruber)
We need to say no more.
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“Residents in areas prone to flooding should move items to upper floods and...”
– Hurricane Irene Churns Toward Tri-State Area - WNYC
I’m going to move everything to upper floods.
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
“The Congressional Budget Office sharply reduced its projection of total deficits...”
– Budget Office Says Lower Deficits Could Be Short-Lived - NYTimes.com
The data could not be more clear. Marginal tax rates on the top brackets need to be increased, and a new super top tier bracket needs to be created.
justrealfood asked: Still at the standing desk??
Currently: writing on one monitor, watching 2001:...
Inspired by this.
“Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken...”
– FOSS Patents: Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ movie as prior art against iPad design patent
“We in America rely on foreign consumer credit to live ever further beyond our...”
– David Korten (via azspot)
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