" I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

-- Phil Karlton

Long a favorite saying of mine, one for which I couldn't find a satisfactory URL.

There is also a variation on this that says there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

"Stop talking about your products and services as objects and items, and talk more about who and how those products and services are used to do amazing things. Build a culture of accomplishment around your offerings, rather than a culture of availability." from: http://www.convinceandconvert.com/book-reviews/the-power-of-consumer-choice-drives-social-media-importance/

So I wish more people were making tools for a specific creative purpose rather than for general consumer adoption. I wish more people were making tools that very intentionally do not scale—tools with users by the dozen. Tools you experience not through a web signup form, but through pathbreaking creative work.<br />
I guess I want fewer aspirational Apples and more Pixar wannabes.<br />
Bless the toolmakers. I’m definitely not complaining here, just thinking out loud, and wondering about this kind of person, the way you might wonder about a world-class tennis player or a wandering ascetic: How can you do that? What makes you want to get out of bed in the morning? It is honestly inscrutable to me.<br />
But I also wonder if there are some toolmakers out there right now who feel some of the same doubt. Carried along by the current of conventional (startup) wisdom and, of course, the promise of a great scalable payout…"

"Don’t give your customers what they ask for; give them what they want."

"Apigee folks are seriously changing the game big time for the developers. If you thought Microsoft changed the lives of developers with Visual Studio, Apigee is doing it for the cloud platforms. Any cloud service who is seriously looking to court developers should talk to Apigee"

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"Not long ago I took my daughters to the Portland Children’s Museum – wonderful place – and I couldn’t help but notice this quote written on the wall above the clay making room. To me it so effectively distilled the essence of social media that so I wanted to share it. The quote reads: When I make my art about a flower it is not showing you who the flower is, but to tell you about me. From the mouth of babes! There are several powerful thoughts here communicated in one simple and authentic statement. Here’s what I see that relates to the practice of social media: 1. People reveal themselves through their interests, concerns and interaction. 2. We must listen to what we’re being told about the speaker, not just to what he or she is saying. (More on corporate listening here.) 3. We should respond in a way that lets the speaker know we see them, not just what they said."

"By 2020 a person's worth will be valued by what they share, not what they keep. That may be the most significant shift of all." the future isn't digital, it's self-organized.

“We are all authors of each other. What we call authority is the right we give others to author us, to make us who we are… That right is one we no longer give only to our newspapers, our magazines, our TV and radio stations. We give it to anybody who helps us learn and understand What’s Going On in the world.”

"Representational State Transfer. HTTP is only the transfer part. URIs, media types, and hypertext as the engine of application state have only incidental connections with HTTP (HTTP was created to do that stuff more efficiently than the original attempts to do so using FTP and Gopher, just as waka will do so more efficiently than HTTP)."

"Games don't separate learning from assessment. They don't say "Learn some stuff, and then later we'll take a test." They're giving you feedback all the time about the learning curve that you're on. So, they're not the only solution to this problem by any means, but they're a part of the solution of getting kids in school to learn not just knowledge as facts, but knowledge as something you produce; and in the modern world you produce it collaboratively."

"One reason most media companies suspended normal business practices online, such as seeking subscription revenues, was a misinterpretation of one of the most powerful observations of the Information Age. When author Stewart Brand coined the expression “Information wants to be free,” he focused on how technology makes it cheap and easy to communicate and share knowledge. But the rest of his quote is rarely noticed. This says, “Information also wants to be expensive.” The right information in today’s complex economy and society can make a huge difference in our professional and personal lives. Not having this information can also make a big difference, especially if someone else does have it. And for valuable information, online is a great new way for it to be valued."

"All people are equally good at time management, but some people are more willing than others to admit that they are doing what they want to do, while others maintain the illusion they wish they were doing something else."

"Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you'd rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously."

Q: Favorite Bucky Fuller quote? A: "Fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood." (via Preoccupations)

Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality Seneca: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time." Mark Twain

Technological delivery may make training efficient. It does not necessarily make for effective learning. It is the relationships among people and sharing contextualized experiences that create emergent knowledge that is the basis of education.

"Elgg focuses on the learner and interactions whereas VLE's focus on the course and content delivery. It's about providing an informal space that lets learners exercise their own thoughts, reflections, make their own connections and be able to compile a b

“My own response is that any technology that we use for learning is a framework and that learning occurs within individuals and often as a result of social interactions between people. Learning does not happen inside the technology.” Karyn Romeis

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

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Tracing the origins of the William Gibson quote, "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

"We're transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring its way of thinking into us." (also a good Kubrick observation)

To read is “to receive a communication with another way of thinking, all the while remaining alone, that is, while continuing to enjoy the intellectual power that one has in solitude and that conversation dissipates immediately.”

"Without innovations, no entrepreneurs; without entrepreneurial achievement, no capitalist ... propulsion. The atmosphere of industrial revolutions ... is the only one in which capitalism can survive."

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Likewise, Brooks memorably stated "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."

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"I like being able to choose my hardware separately from choosing my software, and separately from choosing my content," Berners-Lee said

Excellent article on innovation "People who seem to have had a new idea have often simply stopped having an old idea"

"Cartesian view of learning" - transfer of knowledge, "I teach, you learn" delivery models, naturally fosters subject disciplines the social view of learning, "we participate therefore we are", understanding (rather than knowledge) is socially constructe

"I always know what time it is," he says. "It is always now. And now is when you should do it."

"in this day and age, being expert is not about getting more and more knowledgeable about a narrower and narrower field. It's all about being as clued up on the reasoning behind a wider and wider range of fields."

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that

"I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanit

“Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees” - Arthur Shopenhauer

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable -- Eisenhower

A professional is anyone who does work that cannot be standardized easily and who continuously welcomes challenges at the cutting edge of his or her expertise.

"David Sachs: web 2.0 = networkification vs. web 1.0 = electronification. that may be the bset explanation I've heard."

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty." ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

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