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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: ,  

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: , , , ,  

function/form

a fruit ‘brand’ sticker imitating a leaf… it might not be new but i haven’t seen it before, nice… but why not green?

m / 17-12-2010 08:11 - tags: , ,  

emotional spell check

…have you ever sent an email in the heat of the moment that you later regretted? Have you ever received such an email?
(We have.) Imagine software that would auto-correct your messages to eliminate harsh words, smooth over rough language, and magically turn stormy to temperate…

it turns out that the software playfully depicted in this film (by michael beirut) is actually real, sounds handy i tend to do that several times a day, anger management in a box…

m / 17-12-2010 07:22 - tags: , ,  
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