It is a wasteland

Here’s a simple truth: the internet has radically changed the world. Over the course of the past 20 years, the idea of networking all the world’s computers has gone from a research science pipe dream to a necessary condition of economic and social development, from government and university labs to kitchen tables and city streets. We are all travelers now, desperate souls searching for a signal to connect us all. It is awesome.

And we’re $#@%ing everything up.

Nilay Patel

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/25/5431382/the-internet-is-fucked

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Earl Wilson

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

Nuff Said

I am sick to death of dealing with you designers

From: Robert Schaefer
Date: Monday 8 November 2010 9.11am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Artwork
Hello David,

Can you send me the artwork for our business cards you did last year. Finsbury Press has asked for the original files. I need the artwork before Wednesday so either this afternoon or tomorrow is fine.

Thanks Rob

Read the correspondence here: http://www.27bslash6.com/bob.html

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish

Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr!  That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?"—and Papa is off to his workshop.

Papa’s Mechanical Fish

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/11/animals-made-from-scrap-metal-and-bike-parts-edouard-martinet/

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. ”
― Jarod Kintz,

At the risk of a small present evil

In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.

Yet this difference is tremendous; for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa. Whence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.

Frédéric Bastiat, "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen"

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Kurt Cobain

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

None of the solar flare eruptions have yet been directed towards Earth – so far. Space weather experts are predicting that future flares stemming from sunspot AR 1967 will be in the direction of the planet as it makes a slow turn. NOAA scientists have doubled the odds (now a 10 percent chance) that during the next 24 hours an X-Class solar flare will occur.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1112687/solar-flare-twice-the-size-of-earth-producing-m-class-blasts-every-two-hours/

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

John Lennon

People are like bicycles?

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you.

Dream, and he thinks you're crazy.

Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky.

Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy.

Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Robert G. Allen

You already know how to read

Do You know how to read well?

The four levels of reading

Mortimer Adler literally wrote the the book on reading.

His book, How to Read a Book, identifies four levels of reading:

1. Elementary
2. Inspectional
3. Analytical
4. Syntopical

The goal of reading determines how you read.

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/

The weight of a television set has nothing at all to do with the clarity of its picture. Even if you measure to a tenth of a gram, this precise data is useless.

Some people measure stereo equipment using fancy charts and graphs, even though the charts and graphs say little or nothing about how it actually sounds.

A person's Klout score or the number of Twitter followers she has probably doesn't have a lot to do with how much influence she actually has, even if you measure it quite carefully.

You can't tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it's quite easy and direct to measure this.

We keep coming up with new things to measure (like processor speed, heat output, column inches) but it's pretty rare that those measurements are actually a proxy for the impact or quality we care about. It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

Seth Godin

Save the earth, it's the only planet with chocolate!

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking