“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime” — Honoré de Balzac
“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.” — John Rawls
“When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost… and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.” — T.S. Elliot (via paulsalvage)
“There’s tremendous turbulence in the ecosystem, of course, in mobility. And that’s sort of an obvious thing, but also there’s tremendous architectural contention at play. And so I’m going to really frame our mobile architectural distinction. We’ve taken two fundamentally different approaches in their causalness. It’s a causal difference, not just nuance. It’s not just a causal direction that I’m going to really articulate here—and feel free to go as deep as you want—it’s really as fundamental as causalness.”
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research in Motion, on the future of the Blackberry
Bradysaurus
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You -
“Phone calls are rude, intrusive & awkward,” says the NY Times article. And I tend to agree. The only thing that’s worse? Voicemail.
(via mikehudack)
Regular expression to search for Gadaffi -
\b(Kh?|Gh?|Qu?)[aeu](d[‘dt]?|t|zz|dhd)h?aff?[iy]\b
(via jstn)
Back to The Future, a photographic study by Irina Werning
Bridge
Okay, okay, you caught me. Yes, I was protesting in Cairo yesterday (good catch, Patrick Vlaskovits).