I want the car culture to fall down tomorrow, and I no longer care who knows it. I want the end of single-occupant vehicles, and the end of suburbs that force us to drive 30 or 40 miles to get to a job. I want the end of plastic food produced in a factories thousands of miles away rather than grown in local community gardens and on nearby farms; and an end to clothing made in China by poverty-wage workers and shipped overseas, instead of sewn by us at the kitchen table. I want the end of over-programmed childrens’ schedules that force us to schlep the kids all over hither and yon, and jobs that require so much of our time away from our homes, gardens and families that we no longer have time to live as deliberately as our great-grandparents did.

– unpolitic via Mattly

My definition of a stupid person. A stupid person is a person who
treats a smart person as though they’re stupid.

Errol Morris

One of the problems with pageview billing is that it incentivizes publishers to distract you while reading.

– Marco Arment

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things.

– Charles W. Chesnutt

i *love* editing…if i had the time, i’d erase everything i’ve ever done

– Kristin Hersh

The idea that anyone besides you is responsible for your career is flawed.

–Rands

“Remember people, just because you can’t think of a different solution to your problem doesn’t mean it can’t exist”

- Fighting Hype with Hype – RDBMS FTW!!!1! Via Mattly

There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.

- Plan 9 from Bell Labs

“Much of what we called ‘depression’ was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures that we weren’t willing to work for.”

– Mitch Albom