“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don’t know anything about sex, it won’t do you any good to know a lot about bathtubs.”

via mikkelwinther

Branding: En psykologisk oplevet merværdi ved et firma og dets produkter

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. They’re not laughing now.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

“Princippet er, at vi kun ansætter
folk, der er selvkørende
med deres projekter og er i
stand til at tjene deres egen
løn ind,” understreger Sarita.

- Hvis jeg kunne være en anden for en dag, ville jeg være præsident. Jeg har nogle ting, jeg lige skulle have ordnet i Det Ovale Kontor, kvidrer den 21-årige skuespiller.

“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.”

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I wasn’t there when word processing became a market, so I don’t know if they had these kinds of debates. Perhaps word processing software was not considered useful because some people used word processors to write love letters or other writing that people thought was trivial or insignificant or hard to read.

I wasn’t there when word processing became a market, so I don’t know if they had these kinds of debates. Perhaps word processing software was not considered useful because some people used word processors to write love letters or other writing that people thought was trivial or insignificant or hard to read.

When you start to think about your blog as a receptacle for capturing all parts of your online life (and perhaps even your non-digital life), you can start to imagine a constantly updating page of personal data. To get metaphysical for a moment, the self-aggregator becomes another version of you.

“My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of incredibly rapid technology change is that they’re screaming that they’re being pursued by a snail and yet they cannot get away! ‘The snail! The snail!’, they cry. ‘How can we possibly escape!?. The problem being that the snail’s been moving closer for the last twenty years one way or another and they just weren’t paying attention.“

“Det handler altså ikke længere om, hvad folk kan få, men hvad folk vil have. Takket være internettet og fællesskabet med de andre brugere fra hele verden går det op for dem, at de ikke behøver lade sig nøje med, hvad de store selskaber udbyder. De har ikke bare ét alternativ, men mange, når det kommer til online-magasiner, radioprogrammer, dvd-, cd- og bog-forhandlere og tanker og meninger. Det er en kulturel mangfoldighed, som er med til at gøre verden mindre og samtidig åbne den helt op. Og således er magten, som Peter Svarre er inde på, ved at flytte sig fra udbyderne til efterspørgerne.”

Christian Monggaard, i tidsskriftet Film #49

Mitch Hedberg:
“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.”

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From the 1985 movie “Bliss”:
“The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.”

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Gen. John Sedgwick:
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist-”

“Unless you’re working in a Korean missile silo, you don’t need to check e-mail every two minutes”

Citat: Merlin Mann

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…hvorfor er der ingen der tænker på ateisters og agnostikeres følelser? De bliver krænket dagligt i medierne og i debatterne af især kristne (også på mainstreamniveau), der antyder at dem som ikke er religiøse er mindre moralske, mere overfladiske og materialistiske, mere egoistiske og , ja, følelseskolde. For man har jo kun følelser og moral hvis man er religiøs, ikke? Måske skulle man også tage hensyn til ateisternes følelser.

Minder mig af en eller anden grund om hvordan man fuldstændig har misforstået begrebet “danskhed”. Ægte danske værdier er at være globalt offensiv, tilpasningsevne, et højt uddannelsesniveau, nysgerrighed, socialpragmatisk intelligens, gastronomisk excellence, kunstnerisk genialitet, teknologisk kunnen, innovation og dannelse. Det er altså ikke det modsatte!

“Ville det ikke være sejt, hvis jeg skrev et blogindlæg imens jeg tæskede gennem luften med 800+ km/timen og i godt ti kilometers højde? Og hvad hvis jeg oven i købet sippede whisky og kaffe imens?”

Hvorfor maend linker:

Larry, I said. What is it with guys and links?

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Shelley, to a woman, a link is a way of connecting and being connected. To hearing and being heard. But not so for a guy. Guys see links as power, and therefore something precious, and to be protected. They hold on to their links as tightly, and as lovingly, as a thirsty drunk holds onto a bottle.

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Kvinder bruger deres weblog som en have, maend bruger deres weblog som en affyringsrampe?