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- An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
- Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
- If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
- Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
- It's better to be a company than to work for a company.
- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.
- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
- No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
- One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-23-06
- I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
- Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
- This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
- Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
- I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.
- Matthew Oliphant, Usability Works, 04-01-2006
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