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- I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions.
- Evelyn Rodriguez, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
- Don't do a project where you don't think you'll learn something on the way.
- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Projections are bullshit. They're just guesses. Wait until the real thing happens and then when it happens, then you can make the decision. Make decisions when you have a lot of information to make the decision. Not when you have to guess about what the decision is going to be or use data that doesn't exist yet.
- Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
- Krishnamurti
- A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.
- James Lileks, The Bleat, 03-20-2006
- I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
- Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
- In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.
- Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
- David M. Ogilvy
- They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), The Selfish Gene
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