Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Quote Details: Hugh Macleod: Question how much freedom... - The Quotations Page

Quote Details: Hugh Macleod: Question how much freedom... - The Quotations Page: Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.
It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04

Monday, October 29, 2012

Quote Details: Scott Westerfeld: Not everything made you... - The Quotations Page

I've never heard a more succinct rebuttal to Nietzsche!   Well done!
 
"Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help."
Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The matrix

google is crazy cool.   The developers never even need to know what they're ordering when they ask for storage.

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Tough for an author

"An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943


Only thing I say to this is ... months?  

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

John Lancaster Spalding

"Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry"