January 2008
113 posts
“It is inevitable that we will be massively blindsided by events, because our...”
– Stewart Brand on Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan Theory
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“It had the same musty smell and the same musty people and the same sad boxes filled with anonymous junk and the same sad “snack bar” that in the great order of snack bars sits about fourteen rungs below the old-style bowling alley “snack bar” which back in our childhood was about the saddest place you can imagine, what with its air of beyond beatnik squalor that...
“It’s not that they had a desire to write and that the cellphone happened...”
– collision detection: Is text-messaging the new word processor?
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– So sayeth Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love. (kottke.org)
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“So, forget that cut-throat competitive model they beat into us at business...”
– Green design and how to play the game
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“Our whole economic system will be reinvented around the correct assumption that...”
– Laurent Haug ยป Eight things I think I think