"When choosing the themes to pilfer, only pick ones that you, personally, find interesting -- if you pick something boring you'll only have yourself to blame if it's successful and you end up chained to the desk to write more of it for the next decade." --Charly Stross

"When choosing the themes to pilfer, only pick ones that you, personally, find interesting -- if you pick something boring you'll only have yourself to blame if it's successful and you end up chained to the desk to write more of it for the next decade." --Charly Stross

"Attributes of an effective blog:
Good writing. Useful information. Hot-off-the-press information. Lots of links. Credits to other bloggers as appropriate. Regular posting (at least once a week; preferably more often). Honesty and authenticity in your writing voice. Speaking directly and respectfully to your readers. Not just writing to impress other members of the blogosphere." --Debbie Weil

"I don't know sh** about love." --mr gilbert

"We'll miss you, Hunter S. Thompson. You always said you wanted to choose the time of your passing. Still it's really sad to see you go."--SomaFM

"Si te encuentras un diamante que nadie reclama, el diamante es tuyo. Si encontraras una isla que a nadie pertenece, la isla es tuya. Si eres el primero en tener una idea y la haces patentar, nadie puede aprovecharla: es tuya. Las estrellas son mías, puesto que nadie, antes que yo, ha pensado en poseerlas." --Las patentes según "El Principito"

"while ( love & passion ) { for( fight = 0 ; rights < freedom ; rights ) fight = standup( rights ); free( babylon ); }" --Rami

Wikipedia down

"Power corrupts. Power failure corrupts absolutely." --Wikipedia on a power failure...

"Don't quit your day job solely based on what you read here :-) "--Stephen J. Friedl

So you want to be a consultant...?

"The best way to make a lot of money is to make your customers a lot of money" --Stephen J. Friedl

Is this a NICE IDEA or what?

"'Because they're funny...' Joichi Ito, joi.ito.com 'I'll order some because at blog confabs, blog parties, and other blog events, I want to hand out a card with my blog address instead of my business card. I need blog cards. Don't you?" --Jeff Jarvis

"Developers Don't Buy Things, They Join Things" --from Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog

"Lo que no pué ser, no pué ser; y además, es imposible" --(atribuida a Rafael el Gallo)

"Definition: living a balanced life one day at a time while thinking for yourself and questioning authority." --about {free/form}

"every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"

"Robot Police: Robots protecting you from robots since 1985."--rolandofG

SPAM FILOSOFICO !?

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

Cyberf

"El chocolate contiene feniletilaminas que agitan y provocan pequeños orgasmos entre neuronas sedientas de placer químico.

Me acabo de dar cuenta de que bloguear produce algo similar. Levanta el ánimo. Es una pildora para el stress. Es un antìdoto contra las visicitudes de la vida.

Incluso con algo tan ridículo como un metapost como este :)" --cyberf

"En la ciencia ficción hay un infinito abanico de metáforas, tan vasto como toda la mitología." --Ursula K. Le Guin

"To the uninitiated, the Anti-Hit List is a sort of Top 10 from an alternate universe, where creativity, contrariness and eccentricity are desirable qualities, not tickets to obscurity." --JOHN SAKAMOTO

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." --Jack Kerouac

"The only reason they like having me around is because I’m still young and cheap. The minute I am no longer either, I’m dead meat." --
Hugh MacLeod

"...In answering the question 'What is the purpose of education?' I started at that time from the observation that man lives in a world of objects which influence him and which he wishes to influence, and so he must know these objects in their characteristics, their essence and their relation to one another and to mankind." --Friedrich Froebel, 1827 (the inventor of Kindergarten

"Un optimista ve una oportunidad de ganar en una calamidad; un pesimista ve una calamidad en toda oportunidad." --Winston Churchill

"The only problem with official soundtrack albums is that they tend to include all kinds of other crap that was in the movie. You know, the score." --Ryan Hardy on "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Official Soundtrack"

chapter II & finale

"January 24, 2005

We're not going to be back. We'll be replacing this with another section this week. Stay tuned...
Posted by Todd Burns"

chapter I

"January 21, 2005

We'll be back Monday.
Posted by Todd Burns"

"As an active collector of music for over 30 years, I have to be candid; that three-decade span amounts to an awful lot of music—or, perhaps, a lot of awful music—and not all of it gets immediately remembered." --The styPod

"Wait, so there's a real human person operating this thing?" --Liza

"What good is all of this music if no one ever hears it? Give it away!'"- some old Mark Harp

"Todos somos fragmentos, y de una textura tan diversa, que cada pieza juega, en cada momento, su propio juego." --Michel de Montaigne

"Si además tuviera un poquito de humildad, yo sería perfecto." --Ted Turner

Yahoo!

" There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a
knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts." --quoted by Fred