The price of reliability is simplicity, and for many engineers that is too high a price to pay.
— Unknown
Never underestimate that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
FWIW the Vegas hotel that flew your live lobster from Maine into a desert would appreciate your reusing your towel. For the environment.
— Merlin Mann
… the internet is a hairy reminder of how utterly mundane everyone’s weirdness really is …
— Salim Virji
Living in SF has made me suspicious of insanely beautiful days. Feels like a magic trick.
— Merlin Mann
Peet’s Coffee should be included in a SF Welcome Bag. Alongside a KQED sticker, a dog, and your newly uncontrollable sense of moral outrage.
— Merlin Mann
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
— Daniel Webster
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure?
Is there a better way to die?
— Charles Lindbergh
… “fire” does not matter, “earth” and “air” and “water” do not matter. “I” do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
— Doug Gwyn