“Twitter’s rising popularity continues to amaze me to the point where I’m almost ready to officially consider myself “too old”. On the one hand, I totally understand it because it’s so easy. But on the other hand, I totally despise it because it enables such laziness and extravagance of expression.”
“We’re into the same kind of things you’re into” works better as a marketing strategy than, “Here’s why you should buy our product.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Attributed to Mark Twain
“squeeze as much of the slop out of our lives as we can”
“A UK and Canadian team found that vitamin D helps to control a gene known to increase MS risk. It suggests that vitamin D supplements taken during pregnancy and early in life could prevent the disease.”
“As Americans — grappling with layoffs and grim economic news — try to find ways to fill their time, the Internet is helping people with job searches. But the medium is performing another important role: a social anesthesia that distracts people from the stress of unemployment.”
“But you have to actually build it. You have to work every day. You have to sit in the chair and stay seated. And sleep and come back to the chair. You need to wear out that chair and then buy a new one and then wear out that one.”
