“Bill Gates is super-smart, but Steve Jobs was super-ingenious. The primary distinction, I think, is the ability to apply creativity and aesthetic sensibilities to a challenge.”
—steve’s genius
October 2011
“And Rick Perry brings shallow to a new level. He is very gifted in that regard. He could be the Adolf Hitler of shallow.”
—matt taibbi
“The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool.”
—stephen fry
“What the fuck is wrong with you people?”
—jon says to the GOP
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… anything to avoid shuggling forward on hands and knees to actually lick the TV screen with lust.
Case Histories, guardian.co.uk review
” —or not. not avoid.
“Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president of mobile, doesn’t particularly care for Siri and the idea that the iPhone 4S could be your personal assistant. Rubin says it’s just a little weird for people to be talking to their phone. Those words he’s going to eat.”
—nooooo doubt.
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• Doc Searls Says: October 11th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Is Jobs still dead? It’s been more than three days, and I’ve been wondering.
• Tim F. Says: October 12th, 2011 at 12:46 am
It can take up to 50 days to reincarnate.
” —doc searls
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“Because of this - making ‘connecting with people on the web more like connecting with people in the real world’- it’s important to use your common name so that the people you want to connect with can find you.”
Okay, so there are several problems here, after that line slithers quietly by in the tall grass.
” —brian moffat
“I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn’t use the goddamn website. It’s not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn’t really matter, because nobody’s mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I’ve just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.”
—thanks for the tip
“He hired Larry Tesler, Apple’s Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally - wisely - left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn’t let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page.”
—let’s tie bezos to a chair and make *him* look at the goddamn page
“Google+ is a relative ghost town of privately shared links about how Google+ is a ghost town.”
—i repeat …
“The Cupertino company is now worth $391 billion, passing once again Exxon as the world’s most valuable public company.”
—is that what haters hate?
“iCal looks like John Wayne’s daily ledger for Indian killing sprees …”
—yesss.
“Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) …”
—why didn’t they ask me.
“… despite how sophisticated these neural networks are, it is illuminating to see how the brain sometimes comes up with wrong and overly optimistic answers despite the evidence.”
—lrb blog
“I’m not sure we [atheists] need to be honored. We don’t need positive reinforcement. On the other hand, we do need to stick up for ourselves, especially in a place like Texas, where they have laws, I think, that if you don’t believe in Jesus Christ, you can’t run for sheriff.”
—christopher hitchens
