February 2012
4 posts
“There is nothing to prevent us from inventing another technology of text, a...”
– Kevin Kelly
“The only real “solution” is to change the way people think about email. It needs...”
– MG Siegler
“Bet the farm before it’s a ranch, a small town, and an overly comfy place...”
– Umair Haque
“what society really might have is a shortage of living, breathing well-rounded...”
– Umair Haque
January 2012
4 posts
“The whole mindset of making something long-lasting – a product – is pretty...”
– Chris Heathcote
“Perhaps westerners are so captivated by the idea of destructive apocalypses...”
– Leila Johnston
“The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we’ve been working on...”
– William Gibson
“The Techno Rebels are, whether they recognise it or not, agents of the Third...”
– Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave (1980)
October 2011
7 posts
“Trends in anything aren’t about what’s technically possible so much as they’re...”
– Mary Hamilton
“Identity is prismatic.”
– Chris Poole
“My concern is not that the machines are going to become so smart. My concern is...”
– Kevin Slavin
“Creation is such a rush that it overwhelms other senses and makes you high. And...”
– All Movie Sets Feel The Same - Hue’s Blog
“We’ve noticed that the internet started off with one problem and ended up with...”
– Leila Johnston
“Firms that encourage customers to talk to each other, to form affinity groups...”
– Kevin Kelly
“Creating something personal, even of moderate quality, has a different kind of...”
– Clay Shirky
September 2011
1 post
“The cost of planning, predicting and managing rapidly changing, complex systems...”
– Thoughts on leadership - IBM100 THINK Forum - Joi Ito’s Web
August 2011
7 posts
“Data is a material. To work with streams of live information, or data sources...”
– Tom Armitage
“in a culture where abundance has replaced scarcity as our era’s greatest...”
– Maria Popova
“You can’t design a transformative service without redesigning the organisation.”
– Dan Hill
“The Internet, which I think of as a sort of meta-city, has made it possible for...”
– William Gibson
“The next technological leap […] will be about getting the web off the screen and...”
– Russell Davies
“Wasting time poorly is a sin, because not only are you forgoing the...”
– Seth Godin
“A super-flexible brand is “multi-polar, with several centers of gravity. Today...”
– Stuart Evans and Homa Bahrami
July 2011
3 posts
“[…] once your brain starts working on a problem, it doesn’t stop. If you get...”
– Fred Wilson
“[…] disruptive innovation doesn’t just make us richer, it also makes us freer...”
– Timothy Lee
“Facebook didn’t kill MySpace and Friendster, they killed themsleves by...”
– Fred Wilson
June 2011
5 posts
“Every time we engage with culture, we change it. Copying is an act of...”
– James Bridle
“The fun job of sprinkling nice coffee places around won’t transform a...”
– Ben Hammersley
“You’re surrounded by a personal area network of connectivity. Your Object...”
– Russell Davies
“you gain insight by doing, not by planning.”
– Bud Caddell
“I’d like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where...”
– Richard Brautigan
May 2011
11 posts
“Cities are the absence of physical space between people and companies. They are...”
– Ed Glaeser
“Social Media is not just about marketing and customer service. It’s not just...”
– Rick Webb
“I’ve always found recursive jobs like that to be charming; hair will always need...”
– Trent Walton - Making it personal (via sebastianwaters)
“Agencies need to understand, and decide – if they are in the niche business of...”
– Helge Tennø
“I think there’s a difference between a designer who just wants to go to his...”
– Scott Wilson
“it’s human curators who point us to the kinds of things we didn’t know we were...”
– Maria Popova
“The primary purpose of an editor [is] to extend the horizon of what people are...”
– Eli Pariser
“1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2)...”
– Douglas Adams
“The proper response to a stupid technology is to make a better one yourself,...”
– Kevin Kelly
“The lesson of the leaderless revolutions is that to take on power and change...”
– Carne Ross
“Techno-optimism is an ideology that embodies the pessimism and the optimism...”
– - Cory Doctorow
April 2011
21 posts
“I like to think that every objects around us, every object that we use...”
– Tom Coates
“I have the funny sense now when I’m reading a good book that I’m...”
– Peggy Noonan
“I personally learned a huge lesson, which was that being acquired by the market...”
“The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the...”
– Chris Dixon
“Whining isn’t a scalable solution.”
– Seth Godin
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“The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with...”
– David Kelley
“we are living in times of exponential change driven by emergent technologies –...”
– William Gibson