if you are wondering whose job it is, it’s probably yours."

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way"

"I have a suggestion for what it shouldn't look like: Any method that hands
over the password (or a password-equivalent like a password in hashed form) as
current browsers do should be banned outright, and anyone who implements
hand-over-the-password should killed and eaten to prevent them from passing on
the genes."
mirror: http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/rfc/ietf-mail-archive/http-auth/2011-06.mail

"You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship, that ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction."

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/

"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."

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

""Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in an organization will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. At which point their past achievements will prevent them from being fired, but their incompetence at this new level will prevent them from being promoted again, so they stagnate in their incompetence. The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions (like a company, or an industry) can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem."

"AnnMarie Thomas gave a short talk at TED this year on Why Making Matters. She blogged the following, based on the speech she gave: I truly believe that the one of the best ways to have an impact on the world is to give as many kids and young adults as possible the tools they need to change the world. In a quest to do this, I've read a lot of biographies of engineers and inventors whom I respected and began to see an obvious trend. • Paul MacCready, one of my heroes, designer of human powered aircraft and champion for more sustainable modes of transformation, grew up building model airplanes on his family's ping pong table to the extent that at the age of 14 he set the world record for flight duration of an autogyro." … and much more

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

excellent quotes from Einstein

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

"I believe with great wealth comes great responsibility - the responsibility to give back to society and make sure those resources are given back in the best possible way, to those in need,"

Therefore, what seems to us more important, more painful, and more unendurable is really not what is more important, more painful, and more unendurable but merely that which is closer to home. Everything distant which, for all its moans and muffled cries,