December 2010
1 post
“If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind...”
– Attributed to Mother Theresa, may be paraphrased
Fast Company
August 2010
3 posts
“Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by...”
– Henry Miller The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Myth 12 - The Famous Goethe Quotation
“The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that...”
– — William Feather
Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World’s Hottest Agency to Find His Soul | Fast Company
July 2010
1 post
“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all...”
– Ulysses quotes by James Joyce
May 2010
1 post
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...”
– John Stuart Mill
April 2010
1 post
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only...”
– Albert Schweitzer
March 2010
4 posts
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where...”
– Steve Jobs
About « Dig Deep Thinker
“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to...”
– Howard Zinn
Author, A People’s History of the United States
R.I.P. Howard Zinn, Historian of the People « morphizm
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 2010
1 post
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
– Friedrich Engels
January 2010
3 posts
“Did you want to scream, when you were a child, seeing nothing but fat ineptitude...”
– Gail Wynand
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand
“A person can have the greatest idea in the world. But if that person can’t...”
– George Burns
“Some managers are uncomfortable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but...”
– Jim Collins | Built to Last
from Carmine Gallo’s Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
“Will: Cause fuck him, that’ why.”
– Good Will Hunting (1997) - Memorable quotes
December 2008
2 posts
“Marketing is the tax you pay for being unremarkable”
Unknown”
– Four Years | 43 Folders
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the...”
– Fantastic Quote | notes to friends…
November 2008
3 posts
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein
October 2008
2 posts
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the...”
– Winston Churchill
“Definition of Cloud ;)
It’s a term invented by idiot managers who saw...”
– Sending Excess Load To the Cloud?
August 2008
1 post
“Open source is not a get-rich-quick scheme,” says Marten Mickos, the...”
– Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others
BusinessWeek, August 18th, 2008
July 2008
4 posts
an obscure Lithuanian philosopher named Andrius Kulikauskas whose manifesto, “An Economy for Giving Everything Away,” argues that the best way to find the answer to a problem is to look at what other people are doing, then share your data so that others can benefit. “The value,” Messina says, “is no longer in having monopolistic control over the entire conversation.”
““A community is just a group of people that share a common interest - they...”
– Stephen Walli
““It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do...”
– VC in DC: Why do start ups fail?
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt At the Sorbonne, 1910
June 2008
11 posts
“It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical...”
– Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes
Jay Pipes, MySQL Community Manager
“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of...”
– Douglas Adam, Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“At this point, followers and users of Red Hat Linux may be asking, “What...”
– Virtualization and Linux: Red Hat unveils new vision
Red Hat, Paul Cormier
“Create more value than you capture.” All successful companies do this....”
– Why Arrington is Wrong about Yahoo!-Google Deal - O’Reilly Radar
Tim O’Reilly
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured...”
– Douglas Adams
“Here’s some ridiculous things I’ve heard in my short career of 9 years in web:...”
– …Famous Web Quotes for $500 please
By Jeremy Owyang
“GNOME seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse...”
– Linus Torvalds
The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
“Don’t you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof...”
– Linus Torvalds
Creator of the Linux Kernel in response to Microsoft Patent Claims
As seen on InformationWeek
“If you’re a small ISV and you’re only platform is Linux, it SUCKS...”
– Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation
courtesy of Danese’s blog
“First they ignore you…
Linux is the Hype du Jour
- Gartner Group...”
– Gaveen has a nice quote from a Red Hat “propaganda” video.
“One of the smartest moves I ever made was to figure out that making money...”
– Hugh McLeod Gaping Void
I thought this was interesting because that’s very relevant to the open source software industry. There’s money to be made servicing free software even if you don’t sell your primary “product”.
April 2008
1 post
“ This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by...”
– George Bernard Shaw