December 2011
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November 2011
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August 2011
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From nytimes.
When a reporter asked what market research went into the iPad, Mr. Jobs replied: “None. It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=6B2AB906BAFEF88FD4A1B1683ABD0B0A.w5?a=832773&f=24
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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What I Learned In Joplin
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I’m going to write this in a stream of consciousness, the same way I experienced Joplin.
It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the tornadoes in North Carolina in April, and then the tornadoes in Alabama earlier this month. But the timing wasn’t right in either case.
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April 2011
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A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacity, to...
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I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
– Kurt Cobain
March 2011
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Chuck Norris doesn’t need a debugger, he just stares down the bug until the code...
February 2011
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[…] I’m going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking...
– Last bit by Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) from the movie Trainspotting
January 2011
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Rework
Instead, make choices that are small enough that they’re effectively temporary. When you make tiny decisions, you can’t make big mistakes. These small decisions mean you can afford to change. There’s no big penalty if you mess up. You just fix it.
Making tiny decisions doesn’t mean you can’t make big plans or think big ideas. It just means you believe the best way...
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Apollinian and Dionysian Perspective
[…] Nietzsche accentuates that the development of art depends largely on the duality of two forces, namely, Apollinian and Dionysian that constitute the dichotomy between creation and destruction. Apollo’s illusory world with unified imagery, which indicates ‘things as mere phantoms or dreams’ (1967:34), stands here for a mimetically represented world. On the other hand, we have a...
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Freakonomics (a few notes from the book)
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong
Dramatics effects have distant, even subtle, causes.
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December 2010
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Homenaje de Alejandro Dolina a Néstor Kirchner
El peronismo ha sido muchas veces integrador, o actor principal de acuerdos de concertaciones políticas. Hay por otra parte un arsenal de pensamientos burgueses que garantizan la conveniencia de buscar coincidencias. Algunos llegan a decir que en realidad todos deseamos lo mismo y que discrepamos acerca de las metodologías. Se ha llegado a sostener no hace mucho, que las ideologías han muerto y...
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Recycling and speed-limits are bullshit. They’re like someone who quits...
– Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
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World bankers, by pulling a few simple levers that control the flow of money,...
– Aldous Huxley (from ‘Who’s behind wikileaks’ on Globalresearch.ca)
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Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your...
– @shitmydadsays
We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.
– From a twitter user that it seems has deleted his/her account.
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Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.
– Julio Cortázar
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Para lograr todo el valor de una alegría has de tener con quien compartirla
– Mark Twain
November 2010
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La crisis se produce cuando lo viejo no acaba de morir y lo nuevo no acaba de...
– Bertolt Brecht
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Ya no sé que hacer conmigo - El Cuarteto de Nos
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It is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman; and it...
– Niccolò Machiavelli
October 2010
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Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs,...
– Milton Friedman (quote extrated from the book ‘The Shock Doctrine’ by Naomi Klein
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An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no...
– M. K. Gandhi
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The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great...
– Alex Caray
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Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite...
– Alex Garland (Leonardo Di Caprio) in ‘The Beach’
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September 2010
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