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Distributed systems geek by day, Apple geek by night (and day)

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

—John Cage

Facebook is a continuing nightmare of privacy disasters. It’s the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you’re trying to poop.

For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger and covetous of gain.

—Machiavelli (“The Prince”)

I just season simple food with hunger, and I have never felt better in my life.

—Richard Proenneke

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

—Brad Paisley  (via crims0nlips)

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Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.

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-Mark Twain

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

—Confucius

However, he recalled factors that might have influenced Jobs portrayal of him, adding, “He faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace. So the fact that we were succeeding with high volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it’s tough.” Gates furthered, “And so the fact that … at various times, he felt beleaguered, he felt like he was the good guy and we were the bad guys, you know, very understandable.

By skipping the search engine and going straight to a designated source there is no place to insert advertising. If the results are embedded in Siri’s response, as Yelp recommendations are now, the only way for advertising to appear as part of the process is if the user manually goes to the partner site.

The main thing I stressed was to focus,” Jobs told Isaacson about his conversation with Page. “Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out adequate products that are adequate but not great.