Yo yo yo! This is amazing.
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (via RealPapaPit)
“I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I don’t know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life — the only thing I know to exist — to be wasted.”
George Clooney
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If you can’t build your version 1.0 with three people, then you either need different people or need to slim down your initial version.
Hood over Hawthorne today
When you were kids
- KID: Dad, did they have Shrek when you guys were kids?
- DAD: Uh, no. No shrek then.
- KID: Well what DID they have when you were kids?
- DAD: well, we had Star Wars.
- KID: Really!!?? Back then?!!
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It’s a nice reader,” [Gates] told Schlender, “but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’
Big Think interview with Jason (filmed with the Interrotron) - (37signals)
One of the most refreshing interviews I’ve seen in a long time.
Teaching about fiction vs. reality
- ME: You guys know the difference between fiction and reality, right?
- KIDS: No.
- ME: Well, it's like a biography is reality, because it really happened. Or history books. Or newspapers. Another word for it is non-fiction.
- DAUGHTER: So fiction is made up. Like Disney movies, and Harry Potter, and Anne of Green Gables.
- ME: Yep, all that. Tintin, Spider-man, Princess Bride, Star Wars...
- SON: Well, but Star Wars is non-fiction, right? Because that IS the future...
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But Google’s catalog of capabilities lack cohesion, even when one app can access another. They never feel like the collection of apps in Apple iLife or Microsoft Office or exhibit the synchronicity of the iPhone OS and iTunes.
It occurred to her that in choosing the repurposed airplane ramp as a staircase, she hadn’t considered the child.
(Photo: Bryce Duffy; Dwell, April 2007)
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Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
Ha ha ha! From my funny friend @mrshawnmann.
He tried to focus on the novel, and not how much his bedroom reminded him of a plywood coffin.
(Dwell magazine, November 2009)
