April 2013
5 posts
“Community does not scale”
– Jason Hiner (TWIT#402)
“An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never...”
– John Harrell
“La vida no cuenta los pasos que has dado, sino las huellas que has dejado.”
– Anónimo
Prospero’s Precepts →
nevver:
All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider)
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Dandemis)
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)
Never fall in love with your hypothesis. (Peter...
Full Life
A professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the ...
March 2013
2 posts
Dear Coquette: On an asshole →
Nobody is asking you to compromise your goals and dreams. In fact, you should start reminding yourself that nobody gives a fuck about your goals and dreams. Most of the time, people don’t even give a fuck about what you say. All they really care about is how you make them feel.
So, how do you make the people in your life feel? The truth is, even though they know you’re a good person, you kind of...
“Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the...”
– Cory Doctorow
February 2013
1 post
“Me enamoré de esa persona que no existía en ella.”
– @Erik__Nunez
January 2013
46 posts
“Si existe una postura honesta, completa, razonable con respecto a temas de...”
– Enrique Ganem
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“La estupidez insiste siempre”
– Albert Camus
“Intelectual: alguien cuya mente se vigila a sí misma.”
– Albert Camus
“Inocente es quien no necesita explicarse”
– Albert Camus
“La capacidad de atención del hombre es limitada y debe ser constantemente...”
– Albert Camus
“Está la belleza y están los humillados. Por difícil que sea la empresa quisiera...”
– Albert Camus
“Ellos mandan hoy… ¡porque tú obedeces!”
– Albert Camus
“En las profundidades del invierno finalmente aprendí que en mi interior habitaba...”
– Albert Camus
“El otoño es una segunda primavera en la que cada hoja es una flor.”
– Albert Camus
“Con el dinero ocurre lo mismo que con el papel higiénico: cuando se necesita, se...”
– Upton Sinclair
“Nadie puede volver atrás y empezar de nuevo, pero cualquiera puede empezar hoy y...”
– Maria Robinson
“Toda persona tiene tres personalidades: la que enseña, la que tiene, y la que...”
– Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
“Copiar de una persona es plagiar. Copiar de dos es investigar.”
– Wilson Mizner
“Mientras el tímido reflexiona, el valiente va, triunfa y vuelve.”
– Proverbio griego
“El mundo está lleno de gente dispuesta: algunos están dispuestos a trabajar, y...”
– Robert Frost
“Sabes que tus hijos empiezan a madurar cuando dejan de preguntarte de dónde...”
– Patrick J. O’Rourke
“Tú eres el arco del cual tus hijos, como flechas vivas son lanzados. Deja que la...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“La gloria de los hombres se ha de medir siempre por los medios de que se han...”
– François de La Rochefoucauld
“Si hay belleza en el carácter, habrá armonía en el hogar.
Si hay armonía en el...”
– Confucio
“Una vez terminado el juego, el rey y el peón vuelven a la misma caja.”
– Anónimo
“En una democracia, nadie pierde todo y nadie pierde para siempre”
– Sabino Bastidas (Monitor 12/07/2006)
“Con la democracia, siempre tendremos otra oportunidad”
– Catón (AFA)
“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive—so wisdom wisheth us; she is a...”
– Nietzsche
“Be An Executioner
It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective...”
– Derek Sivers, president and programmer, CD Baby and HostBaby
“Capitalism has a cure for everything, except for capitalism”
– Lore Sjöberg @ Wired - AltText Podcast
“90 60 90 suman 240”
– Aterciopelados
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you...”
– Margaret Thatcher
“¿Cuándo fue la última vez que hiciste algo por 1a vez?”
– Anónimo
“Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses—and not herds or believers...”
– Nietzsche
“Fun is (…) a sign of peak efficiency. Painful development environments...”
– Eric S. Raymond
“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking”
– George S. Patton
“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce great men—this and...”
– Nietzsche
“Science isn’t about facts; is about the quest for facts.”
– Clive Thompson - Wired
“When in doubt, use brute force.”
– Ken Thompson (1st UNIX principle)
“Manage the system, lead the people.”
– Max DePree
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
– Sun Tzu
“The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win you’re still a rat”
“The real key to motivation is to set goals that scare you”
– Steve Pavlina
“Every economic boom is powered by the clueless.”
– Scott Adams
