Quotes

  • On the Internet, they’re like you should spit it/ I’m like you should buy it, nigga, that’s good business. Jay-Z
  • The ears are the windows to the soul. Neil Young
  • Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
  • Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter. George W. Bush
  • Being connected to your food sources is like knowing who’s running your country and knowing how society works. Kaitlin
  • The universe tends toward maximum irony. jwz.org (via mrgan)
  • I think the ultimate test for your current job is: Would you do it for free? If your answer is no, you should consider what you are doing.
  • All mammals have the same number of vertebrae. Humans and giraffes alike. I just finished reading The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. The book attempts to explain cumulative selection to the layperson and posits a universe without design (or a designer). It was very interesting read simultaneously with Galapagos, which I mentioned before.
  • That’s what I wanna do: Just make sandwiches and sell ‘em on the side of the road. Megan on her true calling.
  • Ma luna a‘e o no lahui a pau ke ola o ke kanaka. Translated from Hawaiian, this means, “Above all nations is humanity.” It is the motto of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, where I went to school, and something I think about every day.
  • No matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it. Alan Cooper
  • Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway
  • Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free time,” the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little. Merlin Mann. And I agree. I hate when people say this.
  • I don’t mind the weather. I’ve got scarves and caps and sweaters. Death Cab for Cutie – Blacking Out The Friction
  • Spring has come. A thousand flowers are in bloom—for what? For whom? Zen saying. (Via teaforonesvp.)