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Quote of the week (14 May)

steven — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:38:13 +0000

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.

Quote of the week (9 April)

steven — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:27:01 +0000

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:

Quote of the Week (20 Feb)

steven — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:43:19 +0000

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.

Quote of the Week (31 October)

steven — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:17:19 +0000

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.

Quote of the Week (6 Oct)

steven — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:42:24 +0000

So long Steve

Quote of the Week (11 July)

steven — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:53:15 +0000

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.

Quote of the week (28 February)

steven — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:08:58 +0000

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.

Quote of the week (20 December)

steven — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:02:17 +0000

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.

Quote of the week (13 December)

steven — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:42:52 +0000

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.

Quote of the week (9 December)

steven — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:00:39 +0000

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.