2008

“A large company with bureaucracy and execution problems is...”
— Alex Iskold

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish,...”
— Ayn Rand

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject...”
— Ray Bradbury (via...

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals...”
— Garrison Kiellor (via...

“If you can show growth such as a traffic hockey stick, your...”
— OM Malik (via Chad Hurley)

“He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next...”
— Ian McEwan (via enquotations)

“Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do...”
— Chris Anderson

“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my...”
— Ayn Rand

“You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns”
— Jeffrey Pfeffer (via Babak...

“The idea here is to look at bloated products and pick off...”
— Mike Speiser

“Creating content is expensive. The cost of the tools may...”
— Mark Cuban (via hipsterdiet)

“Associating with wonderful people is about as good as it...”
— Warren Buffett (via...

“There is no question that a playfully light attitude is...”
— Mihalyi Csikszenmihalyi (via...

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of...”
— Albert Einstein

“There are no plus-minus stats to measure a player’s...”
— Chris Ballard (via Ben...

“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when...”
— Paul Graham

The mobile world will see a very interesting application of the haversine formula in the next few...

“Runny Babbit is a book full of poems with letters moved...”
— Mike Speiser (quote on page 3...

“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.”
— Albert Einstein (via...

“Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s...”
— Bill Clinton (via...

“Are we solving a problem that everybody has or are we...”
— Dare Obasanjo

“If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with...”
— Neale Donald Walsch (via...

“If you prefer to pour through 400-page academic tomes, you...”
— Ben Casnocha (via “Uncle...

“Privacy is dead.”
— Scoble

“Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that I learn...”
— Emerson (via lukebarbara) 

“Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your...”
— Mark Cuban

“The system isn’t perfect. Yet, it still demands...”
— CSI

“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again....”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...

“I am purposely choosing not to write about the story...”
— Scott Karp

“If you make something idiot-proof, they’ll make a...”
— Techdirt

“Get people to rely on you for their own success, because...”
— Kristen Nicole

“There have always been two kinds of innovators: those who...”
— Robin Cook

“If you look at the people who have high impact, they have...”
— Larry Page

“The other litmus test before starting something is,...”
— Ben Casnocha

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original,...”
— Howard Aiken (via onherway)

“I do believe that cloud computing needs to overcome the...”
— Kai-Fu Lee (president of...

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never...”
— Thomas Sowell

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions....”
— Mark Twain (via onherway)

“Competition makes everyone work harder to listen to what...”
— John Lilly (CEO Mozilla) 

“Startups don’t fail, they quit.”
— Venture Hacks

“Out of chaos comes order.”
— F. Nietzsche (via...

Never realized Dr. Dre’s lyrics could accurately be...

That’s impossible. (via mathoov)

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it...”
— Stephen Hawking (via...

“The best advice comes from someone who stands not to benefit...”
— me

“AOL is like trying to navigate a zoo without a map”
— CenterNetworks

via www.topdoghotdogs.com

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde (via bunnynico)

“The reason there aren’t more Googles is that most...”
— Paul Graham

“I want what every man wants. I just want it more.”
— Achilles (via Ben Casnocha)

“One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the...”
— Occam’s Razor

“Entrepreneurs don’t take risks, they take...”
— Venture Hacks

I Want PHP

“I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure...”
— Warren Buffett (via...

** San Francisco tumblr meetup in MAY...

letsmeetinsf: OK it’s about time the bay area had it’s own Tumblr meetup (we gotta keep up...

basically… wtf? this gives me little simpathy for...

2008 Startup School

“An ultra-intelligent machine could design even better...”
— Isidore Jacob Gudak

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there...”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best...”
— Seth Godin

AOL has over 6 years worth of chat logs and this is the best...

“If the news is important, it will find me.”
— New York Times

“If you wanted me to give you a one word summary of...”
— The Future of Newspaper

“In the process of discovering it’s broken,...”
— Paul Graham - Ideas for...

“Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for… those...”
— Seth Godin on how resumes are...

“If you’re not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop...”
— Paul Graham - You...

OpenID and OAuth in the browser?

Freakonomics Blog - What Are the Odds You...

via XKCD

“The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than...”
— Tiger Woods

via www.marketingcharts.com

Time to fight security superstition -...

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— Breaking: Paul McCartney Signs...

“If you have an exit strategy, its not an obsession.”
— A Couple of My Rules for...

Sarah: why do you have an asterisk by your name on my buddy list?
Eric: its probably an indicator of the coolest person on your buddy list
Sarah: no that cant be it
Sarah: OMG
Sarah: i'm an idiot
Sarah: i had dirt on my laptop screen

“Lesson 3: Be Successful and Make Money by Helping Other...”
— SXSW: Lessons Learned at 37...

“Government = the men who are allowed to use guns. If they’re...”
— Jakob Lodwick (via...

“Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?”
— The Secret Diary of Steve...

spamers have infiltrated the facebooks

Why be an entrepreneur?

If you don’t take advantage of yourself, someone else will. - jakoblodwick

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you...”
— Mark Twain (via siddman)

“The 20th century was about sorting out supply,”...”
— This Psychologist Might...

“When born we first inhale then cry. Last thing we do when...”
— Twitter / Sacca

prospekt: Here’s one for my good friend Eric Kerr, an inside...

jacobeiting: Graffiti + Political Activism + Marketing...

“An inventor is a man who asks ‘Why?’ of the universe and...”
— Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged...

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent...”
— Thomas Alva Edison quotes

Harvard’s Kit for Sharpening Your Startup...

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

“For the true entrepreneur, reality is the superior teacher;...”
— Jared’s Life

Eric: did you try it out..?
Greg: yeah nice
Eric: k, cool
Greg: wanna do a torrent one too later? hehe
Greg: i can get feeds from any site
Greg: i host 1/2 of the torrent sites in the world anyhow

Ex-Homecoming Queen Beats Sister With Fake...

“I [Paul Graham] like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to...”
— Six Principles for Making New...

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the...”
— American Scientist Online -...

“What product will Microsoft launch February 27? I...”
— Microsoft Will Launch...

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new...”
— Chuug

“Spend a year trying to become good at one thing. Whatever...”
— FT.com - Financial Times -...

“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American...”
— 101 Greatest George Carlin...

“totally broke and inexperienced, but with a good idea and...”
— James Hong: So long HOTorNOT,...

EFF, Creative Commons Offer Developers Free...

“South Africa is considering beefing up their capabilities in...”
— Legalizing Prostitution for...

“A few years from now when we turn on our computer, whatever...”
— The Future of Facebook Lies...

now that’s targeted advertising (via flipzagging)

“When Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer at the New Yorker,...”
— Ben Casnocha: The Blog: The...

“This begs the question: why isn’t there a service...”
— Joseph Smarr: Plaxo’s...

Why push?Why change?Why grow?Why dream?Questions you don’t have to ask yourselfWhen you never...

Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels (via...

prospekt: Looking London by Sam Javanrouh...

“Any attempt to engineer success through Influentials, he...”
— Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Is the...

“Two elephants mating are always good for confusing customers...”
— Paul Kedrosky:...

“General rule of thumb: Never pay for anything on the...”
— Matt Fondacaro (housemate)...

“She [Marissa Mayer] said it’s wrong to look at search as all...”
— VentureBeat » Google’s...

“[Amazon] web services bandwidth now accounts for more...”
— Amazon Web Services: Bigger...

Developer incentives in social networking...

sampurtill: In a meeting with my new housemate, Eric Kerr....

The Age of Ambition - New York Times

Amazon S3 PHP Class

“Democrats say — “Give a man a...”
— Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Book...

“If Steve announces a timeline for a 3G-enabled iPhone, well,...”
— CrunchGear » How to turn...

“If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster...”
— 1938 Media » Blog...