Circles
And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough.
-- Corrigan in "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann
And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough.
-- Corrigan in "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann
social contract dictates that you should move your ass when you’re on the sidewalk
When you are not practicing, someone else is. When you meet him, he will win.
A martial arts saying, via Derek Sivers
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis
Also quoted by Ron Paul on Fox News
Companies that spend tons of ad/PR dollars to convince people their products are worthwhile are like guys who spend lots of money on gifts and dinners to woo a woman. What kind of relationship are they really building?
These days, it might be easier to exalt the fake than to try to make sense of the genuine. But maybe by pretending to be in a band, there will be those who’ll find the nerve to go beyond the game, and to take the brave leaps required to create something real.
Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney reviewing the game Rock Band http://www.slate.com/id/2177432
(yes, that’s two quotes from the same article)
Basically, you get to sound experimental and avant-garde for one moment before you get kicked out of the band.
Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney reviewing the game Rock Band http://www.slate.com/id/2177432
More wag, less bark.
(I have to keep reminding myself of this the past few days when little has gone smoothly.)
Bumper Sticker
In Japan, the distinction between craft and art is blurred at most, possibly nonexistent. Japanese theories of art (and craft) often involve principles of harmony and balance. We might debate in America whether programming is an art or a craft, but if you’ve got one word for the same thing, you’re asking whether programming is an artcraft or an artcraft, and the answer, obviously, is ‘Yes, you idiot.’
Giles Bowkett http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-i-program-in-ruby-and-maybe-why-you.html
What artists and scientists have in common is the ability to live in an open-ended state of interpretation and reinterpretation of the products of our work.
Daniel J. Levitin
This Is Your Brain On Music
