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The more people we have on our team, the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
– David Karp

The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.
– Jim Barksdale

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
– Mark Zuckerberg

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
– James Cash Penney

a daily dose of ‘wisdom’ on starting your own business from others who also have: startup quotes (with thanks to ‘martin vesseur’)

m / 19-12-2010 12:47 - tags: ,  

the centre of the universe

…the date is 1609, Italy, late night at Galileo Galilei’s workplace watching the sky, studying celestial bodies focusing on the moon. He prepares to see this unexplored world with his customized telescope while some of his sketches and notes rest on the floor…

nice animation from recent graduate juan behrens (via cpluv)

m / 19-12-2010 00:04 - tags: ,  

royal ties

in theory… in theory, i’m attending an event in the royal palace on dam square this afternoon, in the presence of queen beatrix and (close to 500) guests for the annual ‘prince claus fund’ art prize ceremony, in other words all the effort put into my string titles sequence is going to fly by in a few seconds… gone

i still can’t show the final thing here (beatrix first…) but here’s a new test section with some of the finished title pieces… the music was custom made by ‘music skeleton’ and the film will be divided up onto three separate projection screens, should be fun…

on a sidenote: the fact that my personal invite still hasn’t arrived makes me wonder whether the secret police will let me in… we’ll see, wish me luck

m / 17-12-2010 15:22 - tags: ,  

ideas in a year

for the tenth consecutive december in a row, the ‘new york times magazine’ …has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas… and well worth a look it is too some really nice, silly, smart and odd ideas bundled together… as americans tend to say ‘that’s neat’

m / 17-12-2010 09:22 - tags: , , , ,  

wiggly bum

dutch photography portal ‘photo Q’ has another online auction of oddities & gems, bidding ends late next tuesday…

m / 17-12-2010 08:22 - tags: ,  
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