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One reason fiction writers seem creepy in person is that by vocation they really are voyeurs.
-David Foster Wallace
” —i beg your pardonAugust 2011
“Google’s chairman just assured a crowd in Scotland that, in actuality, the social network trades your privacy for some frickin’ awesome enhancements to Google’s bottom line.”
—the ever-admirable eric schmidt. yes, google’s ceo’s are that stupid.
“Rush Limbaugh: Obama Wanted the Hurricane to Be Worse”
—one could live by gawker headlines
“Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a f–kload of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.”
—dave eggers
“The trees never ended. The trees were everywhere. There were some things, growing up, that seemed limitless in their supply, overabundant, somehow both comforting and a little obnoxious in their insistence on being a part of every experience you could have: the trees, the water, and the snow. Nobody, or at least no young people that I knew, ever entertained for a moment the possibility that these things weren’t eternal, perpetual, guaranteed.”
—hell of a writer
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In 2003 Jobs persuaded the music companies – which wouldn’t license their songs to bigger names like Microsoft – to go with him because, he said, Apple was tiny (which it was, at the time). The risk if people did start sharing songs from the store was minimal, he argued. The record labels looked at Apple’s tiny market share (a few per cent of the PC market) and reckoned they’d sell about a million songs a year, so they signed up.
Apple sold a million in the first week…
” —paying to play
“More people know more things about Tim Cook now than they did a few weeks ago. That’s what happens when you become the CEO of Apple.”
—felix salmon
“Whatever benefits Google Plus gains from breaking away from Twitter’s bad example and not enforcing an heartless cull of the verbal fluff—the cushioning that makes social interaction so much more pleasant and nice— it loses by being staid and predictable; serendipity is lost and unappreciated.”
—my god, baldur is smart!
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Amazon’s move follows in the footsteps of the Financial Times move in June this year to sidestep iTunes.
Cupertino, I think we have a problem …
” —good problems
“Jobs “beat major record labels into $0.99 submission—dealing with every cable network under the sun will be even harder.”
—i fail to see why.
“God isn’t in the details, Steve is.”
—half a mo, i thought that was chomsky. no, wait …
“And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
—s.j.
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Playboy: Are you saying that the people who made PC don’t have that kind of pride in the product?
Steve Jobs: If they did, they wouldn’t have made the PC.
” —1997
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… a transition that no one wanted but which could not, alas, be avoided. And as ever, he’s doing it his way.
So it goes.
” —john gruber: resigned
“Services like Spotify are tiny next to Apple’s terrifying market cap (which now outstrips the G.D.P. of many countries) …”
—sasha frere-jones in the new yorker today
“I want to build really good tools that I know in my gut and my heart will be valuable. And then whatever happens is… you can’t really predict exactly what will happen, but you can feel the direction that we’re going. And that’s about as close as you can get. Then you just stand back and get out of the way, and these things take on a life of their own.”
—the rolling stone interview, ‘94
“… while Sarah Palin is gearing up for a major speech in Iowa, just 8 percent want her to run.”
—gearing up for the schadenfreude of a lifetime
