February 2011
31 posts
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things”
—Henry Miller
“The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you’d still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since.”
—Clay Shirky
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
—Steve Jobs
“All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time”
—George Seldes (via ktsait)
Quote - Derman
Everything is interesting when you examine it closely enough to be
able to recognize its quality and its quantity; every field is
fascinating when you have sufficient familiarity with its nuances and
begin to try to bridge the gap between its form and its implementation.
-Emanuel Derman “My Life As A Quant” page 92
