From Richard Feynman, quoted in brain pickings:
If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong.
The article is worth a visit as it includes some great excerpts from one awesome career.
Archive for the ‘Quote of the Week’ Category
From Clay Shirky, via gigaom:
Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it’s a button.
A tad brutal, but interestingly accurate when I think about the work I’m now doing with InDesign, iBook Author, Calibre, etc.
Although it does mean we’ll miss great characters such as this chap:
Haven’t found anything suitably inspiring for a while. But this one from Copyranter made me smile.
Being an expert in social media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refridgerator.
Quoted in a Zach Holman presentation on GitHub, but originally from Merlin Mann:
Making something a BIG RED TOP TOP BIG HIGHEST #1 PRIORITY changes nothing but text styling.
if it were really important, it’d already be done. Period.
So long Steve
From Hall of Fame basketball player/coach John Wooden:
“If You Don’t Have Time to Do It Right, When Will You Have Time to Do It Over?”
Thanks Lifehacker for the discovery.
From an old neighbour of mine, Douglas Adams. Comes from Salmon of Doubt, uncovered by 37 Signals:
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
That explains my bafflement at Twitter then.
From William Morris (Beauty of Life, 1980):
If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Quoted by Donald Norman in Emotional Design, 2004.
From Bjarne Stroustrup, quoted in Top 50 Programming Quotes of all Time:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
From Evgeny Morozov, quoted in a Gizmodo article on the subject of the week (year?), wikileaks: The reaction of governments to Wikileaks should scare the hell out of you..
Wikileaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full body scanner.