February 2012
1 post
“Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep...”
– Seth Godin’s hill approach to career development. (via teaim)
January 2012
1 post
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do”
– Henry Ford (via teaim)
December 2011
2 posts
“I just ordered a ladle from amazon.
I looked at a few different ladles.
And...”
– Abtin Forouzandeh via deplorableword
“About 60% of the people stopped when we had 24 jams on display, and then at the...”
– Sheena Iyengar
November 2011
1 post
“To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier....”
– Derek Sivers
September 2011
4 posts
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke (reminded by @jakegrimley)
“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– Gert Dumbar
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to...”
– George Bernard Shaw
1 tag
“A new generation, one that grew up with a data surplus, is coming along. To this...”
– Seth Godin - The Shower of Data (via deplorableword)
August 2011
4 posts
“Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”
– Tim Vine
“No pressure,
no diamonds.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“the plural of anecdote is not data”
– NewStatesman (via @deplorableword)
“If you have a baby and you don’t teach it to say “Help!...”
– @addedentry
July 2011
6 posts
“In France, a ‘Jacuzzi’ is the special bath you sit someone in, when...”
– Gareth Aveyard - @GarethAveyard
“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees”
– How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy | Cult of Mac
“I don’t believe in god because I’ve thought about it.”
– Sean Lock
“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
– Chuck Close
“There is a 100/10/1 “rule of thumb” with social services. 1% will create...”
– Fred Wilson
“Do you know that there are now more people on Facebook than there are in the...”
– The Ad Contrarian
May 2011
1 post
“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the...”
– http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046
April 2011
1 post
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
March 2011
1 post
“Scientists at first were skeptical that a kitten-type being could exist in the...”
– Steve Martin
October 2010
1 post
“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”
– Spike Milligan
August 2010
3 posts
“We confirm that in July 2010 6,400 programmes were streamed from the BBC...”
– BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Round up Friday 27 August 2010
“Subtle design and messaging challenge the user to make her own connections...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/subtlety-deconstructed.html
“I’ve written a one man play called a monologue.
It’s from the...”
– The Penny Dreadfuls
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
7 posts
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly...”
– Edwin Land (Inventor of the Polaroid camera)
“[A Robin Reliant] is about as safe as inviting your mum around for an evening on...”
– Jeremy Clarkson
“One of my earliest memories is seeing my mother’s face… through the...”
– Milton Jones
“JS: If ‘topkill’, the coolest [sounding] containment strategy...”
– Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) on BP’s attempts to stem the leak of oil in the Gulf of Mexico Watch
“Everybody should have a hobby that could kill them.”
– Neil Gaimen
Solved: Gmail, iPad, iPhone, and multiple from... →
May 2010
3 posts
“PM: “I know exactly who reads the papers.
The Daily Mirror is read by...”
– Yes, Prime Minister
“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and … you can drink...”
– Andy Warhol
“Blame it on the soundtrack, a lo-fi version of Billy Joel’s She’s Always a...”
– John Lewis ‘spend it before you die’ ad puts sales up 40% (via nathansmonk)
April 2010
7 posts
“These days, several famous names live here, including the television actor Tony...”
– Humphrey Lyttelton (ISIHAC)
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
– Paul Klee
“The way I saw it, the Pope would essentially be my warm-up act. He’d get them...”
– Frank Skinner on why he turned down the invitation to do a gig during the Pope’s tour (Skinner shuns the Pope)
Mad Men
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Yep, this pretty much sums up why I love it.
“[I’d be interested] if I was some kind of adonis… not like Lord...”
– Adam Buxton on why we shouldn’t have a ‘Nude Day’
“Your car is so pathetic it couldn’t kill a child.”
– Tom Basden, ’Party’
“I never said [Ed Muskie was addicted to Ibogain] – I said there was a rumour in...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
March 2010
9 posts
“[The BBC] competes with commercial broadcasting in the same way a mountain...”
– Ellis on the beeb
“Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, May 7 1840.
When he was a...”
– Victor Borge
Watchjakegrimley:
Via D’log
“… create a garage if you have no immediate need for a forth bedroom, but...”
– Do. - Garage or no garage (some sound advice)
“Last time I went to America, I really got into the culture. I went into a shop...”
– Milton Jones
“You’d much rather believe all that bullshit; … that terrorists are coming...”
– Doug Stanhope