December 2009
21 posts
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
– Henry Louis Mencken (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via itchycosmicpocket)
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
– Bill Gates (via lickystickypickyme) (via proofmathisbeautiful)
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
– Albert Einstein (via lickystickypickyme) (via proofmathisbeautiful)
“All you need is ears”
– George Martin
“There is no such thing as boring knowledge.
There is only boring presentation”
– Dan Roam on “What Matters Now” (get the free e-book compiled by Seth Godin)
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma)
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
– Mark Twain (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via stranged) (via daysofturmoil)
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of his dreams.”
– Proverb (twitted by @leolaporte)
“(A)sk yourself: “Who got me to change? (…)What was common to all...”
– David Allen
“Have nothing in your house you do not consider to be useful or beautiful.”
– William Morris
(via Remodelista)
“When you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use...”
– Winston Churchill (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via daysofturmoil)
“While you’ve been living in the past, the present happened.”
– via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma)
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller Robert Harold Schuller (born September 16, 1926), is an American televangelist, pastor, and author known around the world through his weekly Hour of Power television broadcast. He is the founder of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, where the Hour of Power program...
On writing and templates
To all the detractors of using a template for writing a blogpost: try changing the word “template” for “method”. A method is a series of steps that have proven being succesful for a specific task. The article template should not be a “cookie-cutter for blog posts” (which will certainly provide articles of little value) but:
* a logical structure that...
“Si no tengo tiempo para “lo que me gusta hacer”… ¿por qué no...”
– AJP
“What you don’t know may not hurt you, but what you don’t remember...”
– Gerald M. Weinberg Gerald Marvin Weinberg (‘Jerry’) is an author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development. His most well-known books are The Psychology of Computer Programming and Introduction to General Systems Thinking both of which are considered...
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)