reading what one-man shop @Pinboard accomplished in one year.

http://mykl.us/w3MNx4

#code

reading what one-man shop @Pinboard accomplished in one year.

#code

for most of human history, winter was a life threatening condition.

#happy @solstice !

"it feels like instead of standing on the shoulders of giants, we're standing on their toes."

- Dave Winer

http://mykl.us/tbUMOE

#code

given Facebook's complexity, their Timeline interface seems well designed.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky quote

"there is no data like more data."

http://google.com/search?q="there+is+no+data+like+more+data"

"My actions are my only true belongings."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

#twuote via @Lola

"We focused because we had no plan B."

- Seth Godin

http://mykl.us/uWNeFG

#biz

"technology and humanity... really are the same thing."

- Dave Winer

http://mykl.us/tDo3vX

#tech quote

"No. 2 always wins in America."

- Louis C.K.

http://mykl.us/su0yCo

#tech trends

[secret #5 = Ping / Statuses revised]

[secret #4 = Ping / notTwitter]

[secret #3 = Ping / statuses]

[secret #2 = Ping / micro-blogs]

When you’re faced with a "we need to stop the bleeding" problem, you need a fast decision.

- John Gruber

http://mykl.us/to8tJn biz

matter drags on time.

"People who make hardware should get their software act together before Apple does for them."

- Matt Mullenweg

http://mykl.us/oW7rfU tech

"Respect means you respond to who the person really is, or what the object really is, not what you imagine it is."

- Dave Winer

#quote

"Courage is contagious."

- Billy Graham

#quote

"Job creation is a false idol."

- Seth Godin

http://mykl.us/qCol81 governance

"The commonplace of the schoolbooks of tomorrow is the adventure of today."

- Jacob Bronowski (1972)

http://mykl.us/ns2Si8

(anger + fear) x (ignorance) = hate

I do my work not just to create products, but to advance the art.

- Dave Winer
http://mykl.us/ogviHM

One should never fully trust in the apparent stupidity or intelligence of anyone.

- Alain de Botton

#twuote

"If people weren't so tied to their home equity, would there be massively more population shifts among the states?"

- @CounterNotions

"Militarism springs from the same psychological deficit that requires an endless series of enemies..."
- Mike Lofgren
http://t.co/Z91BXod

"Jobs' greatest creation isn't any Apple product. It is Apple itself."

- John Gruber
http://mykl.us/oVryNY tech

"You are what you don't share."

- @CounterNotions twuote

"Is disconnecting a cell phone (tower) or a social network any different from trashing a printing press?" - Seth Godin http://mykl.us/qRJOEd

whalers were the first astronauts of American history.

"By taxing estates heavily at death, the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire’s unworthy life." - Andrew Carnegie

#quote

history doesn't always repeat itself, but it usually rhymes. - Seth Godin

http://mykl.us/p939v6 quote

"America’s intellectual-property system is a travesty which threatens the wealth and welfare of the whole world."

http://mykl.us/rtJ78v

"Asking a site-based service to make us free, is like asking a railroad to make us a car."
- Doc Searls http://mykl.us/oQs7nD tech

the first known war over a hydrocarbon deposit was in 312 BCE, in the Middle East.

(http://mykl.us/nlwHEs)

most services aren’t killed by competitors, they kill themselves. - Tom Anderson

(#tech paraphrased at http://mykl.us/mZeSRI)

"Many companies are institutionally afraid of change. Apple is afraid of stagnation." - John Gruber

http://mykl.us/pzyN9I tech

"Losing that kind of talent and innovation to a legal system is the real crime." - Craig Hockenberry

http://mykl.us/orGK1n tech

Most of the time, when friends recommend something, they just want YOU to validate their choice (whether it was right or wrong).

"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life." - Walker Percy

http://mykl.us/rpe3Y9

"The days of PC-era lock-in are dead. Build something for the users... and you can actually win our business."

http://mykl.us/qTte0l tech

"It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished.” - John Adams

(#quote via http://ping.fm/2FwaZ)

"At the end of the day this deal isn’t about royalties. It is about trying to kill Android.”
- Robert Cringley

http://mykl.us/kTzafg tech

"If you want to piss an engineer off, duplicate his hard work." - @Rands

#tech twoute

"The mobile industry is currently in a state of patent warfare." - Ryan Kim

http://ping.fm/tstIk tech

"The very long tail of the future is already here."
- Kevin Kelly

http://mykl.us/kcclz8
#tech

"the future is unevenly distributed."
- William Gibson

#tech quote

"Are we being good ancestors?"
- Jonas Salk

#history quote
http://mykl.us/jFVg1Z

"(Finland is) finally getting out of that cycle, where everything revolves around Nokia." - Peter Vesterbacka http://mykl.us/kYuwqX tech

computing history: Steve Jobs’s Closing Keynote at WWDC 1997, before he was CEO, again. http://df4.us/hv8

"history, it's actually a way to get a head start on life." - Dave Winer http://mykl.us/iKzu79 quote

"Whenever a hardware maker has to put the name of another company in its ads as a selling point, it may already have lost." - @GlennF biz

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."
- Baltasar Gracian

(#quote via @Lola)

"The internet, it turns out, is a movement, and every time someone tries to own it, they fail." - Seth Godin http://mykl.us/mnjMEa tech

"The Open Source community is building business models that may finally put some security in data security." http://mykl.us/j6WRMY tech

"This is National Security... which means ethical and common sense rules are suspended without question." http://ping.fm/D9DVn tech

"our data is the computer" - Robert X. Cringely http://mykl.us/msYo9d tech

"the smartphone wars are now the first shots in the Internet wars." - Brian S. Hall http://ping.fm/vPqII tech

"People change slower than they think." - @Rands twuote

"the real problem with peasant farming is that it means that the farmers have to live as peasants." - Matt Ridley http://mykl.us/lIX07Z

the latecomers' worldview includes an imperative: don't be left out. - Seth Godin http://mykl.us/mNRvm0 biz

crops as destiny: reading @MattWRidley's "Perishability and Democracy". http://mykl.us/lYatDT thinker

"what if X were utterly ubiquitous and free — what could we do then?" - Robert X. Cringely http://mykl.us/ky3xBX future tech

"This is a hardware war and Google so far is winning... competitors don’t even realize that’s what is going-on." http://mykl.us/ky3xBX tech

"the address bar is like the back door." - Dave Winer http://mykl.us/kpXY86 tech

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loran Eiseley quote

"look for heavy activity in this space as Microsoft assimilates and Google constructs." - Robert X. Cringely http://mykl.us/lXmHBk

a domain name should be an easy thing to allocate, like a Save File dialog box - Dave Winer http://ping.fm/KDtTc tech

wooden outdoor fireplace hut by Haugen/Zohar Architects http://ping.fm/85bJi

this $25 personal computer fits in your pocket. just plug in a... http://ping.fm/nWhIp

the dogs of war http://ping.fm/g05oc

ingredients http://ping.fm/geBdD

ingredients

if you put hydrogen into a thin skinned container, and release the container into an oxygen rich atmosphere, it will float. if you put a burning match to that hydrogen, it will burst into intense flames.

if you mix one part hydrogen with two parts oxygen inside a thin membrane, you might have a water balloon. if you disperse its contents in the atmosphere, it will probably fall to the ground as rain. you can drink it. it is impossible to light on fire.

sometimes innovation is not an option.

"Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in the world." http://ping.fm/qjO9N

is information a measurement of entropy?

Teddy Roosevelt and Al Gore became much more radical about protecting nature after losing a presidential election. http://ping.fm/5krmF

BillB: @rands The manual is a catalog of the product's flaws. http://ping.fm/kSTii

"post PC" doesn't mean "sans PC" - Michael Gartenberg http://ping.fm/87RyM tech

“It’s not innovation until it gets built.” - Garry Tan twech

"#Google is essentially a maker of very capital-intensive, full-custom, warehouse-scale computers." http://ping.fm/9x1Tu hardware company

"VC is a cancer." - Justin Williams http://ping.fm/P0C6b tech

"If we're going to spend time, apparently, it better be perfect..." - Seth Godin http://ping.fm/sKbGX

" Discovery and invention are the same process." - Kevin Kelly http://mykl.us/gN9LZ2 art

"Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it." - Alan Kay http://mykl.us/gQqmwQ tech quote

"He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into existence." - Stephen Bayley http://ping.fm/uLERO tech

"Cause you never know when you might need to communicate in a limited symbol set!" @JHitzig http://ping.fm/ZUzSL

"Any company that can squash the leading edge can prevent the future." - Bob Frankston http://ping.fm/s720n twech

"Twitter wants to be an app. We users wish it were a protocol. @DaveWiner is right: http://bit.ly/hVtJdH" - @DWeinberger tech

the Sendai earthquake moved Earth's axis ten inches, according to the USGS. (source: The Vancouver Sun http://ping.fm/VAFeO)

"Is something important because you measure it, or is it measured because it's important?" - Seth Godin http://ping.fm/amElZ twuote

"the real excitement lies in imagining the least computerized field becoming computational." - Kevin Kelly http://mykl.us/f4fEmq twech

"The essence of a 'strategy tax' is something that keeps a company from reaching its full potential" - John Siracusa http://ping.fm/mL6y4

"Fringe religions became mainstream churches, ideas which originate several leagues beyond flaky can easily become orthodoxy." Peter Jenkins

"We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization."- Charles Siebert twuote http://ping.fm/zwl7C

"listen to the people you don't want to a little more." - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/nPV9r learning twuote

"There is no such thing as a durable lockdown in the internet world." - Frédéric Filloux http://ping.fm/bGLGQ twech

"He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death." - Cormac McCarthy

"the one-to-many vehicles of mass communication, radio and TV, weren’t needed" http://ping.fm/fGjrJ

"everything we do is an enlargement on our naked beginnings." - @DocSearls (1986) http://ping.fm/H1RTg

numbers will confess to anything when under torture. - Jean-Louis Gassée http://mykl.us/hh55ci twuote

"We could have four competing tablet platforms six months from now, and not one of them is from Microsoft." - @DaringFireball twech

if the NSA did not exist, did not recruit top minds, did not spend vast resources, what else would those brains and billions produce?

"It doesn't matter whether we're stuck in the slow lane or the fast lane. What matters is that we're confined to lanes." - @BobFrankston

We actually host over 10,000 users on one Mac mini" - Ken Case http://ping.fm/XDLWW twech

" The cloud syncing service is built to work with any WebDAV server" http://ping.fm/0qt0V twech

"The people who are scared of us seeing what we will see need to change their ways. Now." - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/EzKKG FitToTweet

"Sustaining large-scale platforms is a very dicey preposition given the breakneck speed of change." - Kontra http://ping.fm/hjpnx twech

"history shows people just as prepared to fight for honor and recognition..." http://ping.fm/jsrN8

scholars of prehistory are too quick to assume that primitive humans -- their own ancestors! -- were stupid, unimaginative homebodies.

Apple's product portfolio fits on a kitchen table, but they sold $76 billion of it in 2010. - Horace Dediu http://ping.fm/xNgFy twech

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now." - Chinese proverb (via @WordWhispers)

"the web is a prior-art machine." - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/3RuJp twech

"Tactics without strategy are guesses." - @Rands twuote

"The important thing is that you and your ideas live outside the silo and are ported into it at your pleasure." http://ping.fm/WDODC

"snow storms are socialist." - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/M58YO twuote

Complètement Tiki
[via rrrick] http://ping.fm/3D28i

lighter than air [via GreyHandGang] http://ping.fm/o4XDL