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"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not..."

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:53:54 +0100

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.”

- David Allen

"David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking..."

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:37:56 +0200

“David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.” If I may paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one co-founder may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

- 451 CAOS Theory » What did I miss?

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. – Albert..."

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:22:13 +0200

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. – Albert Einstein”

- The Albert Einstein Experience: Jokes, Relativity and Black Holes

"We came up with a name [for a company], `Telemon,’ ” says Meyer. “It was..."

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:18:12 +0200

““We came up with a name [for a company], `Telemon,’ ” says Meyer. “It was wonderful—until we went to Thailand, where it means `intercourse with your mother.’ “”

- U.S. News 10/13/97

"When dealing with git, it’s best to work in small bits. Rule of thumb: if you can’t..."

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:55:58 +0200

“When dealing with git, it’s best to work in small bits. Rule of thumb: if you can’t summarise it in a sentence, you’ve gone too long without committing.”

- Git for the lazy - Spheriki

"Let’s face it, if hosting The Tonight Show for 30 years didn’t turn Johnny Carson into an extravert,..."

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:01:15 +0200

“Let’s face it, if hosting The Tonight Show for 30 years didn’t turn Johnny Carson into an extravert, I doubt tips like “say hi to more people” will do the trick.”

- Introverts and Extraverts

"What’s the point of having airport security if $100 a year gets you past it?"

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:43 +0200

“What’s the point of having airport security if $100 a year gets you past it?”

- How to Change the World: Father’s Day Gift Suggestion: Clear Card

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and..."

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:43:41 +0200

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

- Presentation Zen: Sir Ken Robinson: We need to transform education

"If there’s something worse than not being part of the conversation it’s pretending to be..."

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:19 +0200

“If there’s something worse than not being part of the conversation it’s pretending to be part of the conversation.”

- advergirl

"Page X of Y. Ever wonder why so many financial and legal documents use a page numbering scheme that..."

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:37:30 +0200

“Page X of Y. Ever wonder why so many financial and legal documents
use a page numbering scheme that tells you how many pages
there are in the document? For some documents, the simple knowledge
that *there is an end* is required to maintain one’s sanity.”

- Amazon.com: Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 (Real World): Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner: Books

"hen there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the center, he created..."

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:11:32 +0200

“hen there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the center, he created this big atrium area, which seems initially like a waste of space. The reason he did it was that everybody goes off and works in their individual areas. People who work on software code are here, people who animate are there, and people who do designs are over there. Steve put the mailboxes, the meetings rooms, the cafeteria, and, most insidiously and brilliantly, the bathrooms in the center—which initially drove us crazy—so that you run into everybody during the course of a day. [Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.”

- Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM

"My challenge this week is to draw a whiteboard diagram that looks vaguely like a penis in every..."

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:02:23 +0200

“My challenge this week is to draw a whiteboard diagram that looks vaguely like a penis in every meeting I’m in, and pretend to not notice.”

- Twitter / Matthew Rothenberg: My challenge this week is t…

"if they can put up with windows, they can put up with badly rendered CSS."

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:03:33 +0200

“if they can put up with windows, they can put up with badly rendered CSS.”

- technomancy, snitched by mattly, in #caboose (via caboose)

amen!
(via squishtastic)

"I met my wife on your captcha!!!” — Steve, from New York"

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:29:16 +0200

““I met my wife on your captcha!!!” — Steve, from New York”

- Captcha Mashup

"Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait around until..."

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:57:19 +0200

“Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait around until someone hands you a billion dollars.”

- Quit your job! - (37signals)

"… there are some HR companies that will shuffle all the resumes for the week and then throw the..."

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:47:22 +0200

“… there are some HR companies that will shuffle all the resumes for the week and then throw the first 50 in the trash can because they do not want to hire unlucky people?”

- Do You Know That… : Public Speaking Information & News

"Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are necessary, especially..."

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:38:48 +0200

“Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are necessary, especially when they suspect they aren’t.”

- Excerpts from Ricardo Semler’s book “Maverick: The Success Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace” - (37signals)

"For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome"

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:36:07 +0100

“For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome”

- Playbooks and Tipsheet

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two..."

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:42:22 +0100

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie”

- How to Get a Life

"Oh, and one last thing - if you think that your $300 flash can light the stage better than a..."

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:48:22 +0100

“Oh, and one last thing - if you think that your $300 flash can light the stage better than a $10k-$1M lighting truss, operated by a skilled technician who took all day to get the light perfect on stage, then stop taking pictures and revisit lighting 101.”

- Photo Business News & Forum: So, You Want to Shoot Concerts? - Getting Started, The Right Way