Category: Quotes

“The way they make these waiters carry around 20 pounds of salad and breadsticks on giant trays is just silly. They should just push around wheelbarrows or something and use shovels to scoop it directly into people’s faces.”

— Garrett Murray

“I may buy a lot of stuff, but should I only be viewed as “a consumer” in the eyes of the government and my democracy?”

— Jason Katzer

“I’m starting to learn to let the small things be small, and the big things be big.”

— Pat Dryburgh

“Because scars and all, it’s still my city—and that’s one feeling that never goes away.”

— Dan Moren

“Empathize, but refuse to be terrorized. Instead, be indomitable — and support leaders who are as well. That’s how to defeat terrorists.”

— Bruce Schneier

“Forgetfulness is not the ideal when it comes to youthful indiscretion, as much as we in our self-loathing and shame may feel it is. The ideal is forgiveness.”

— koeselitz [h/t to reader Rory M.]

“Users are their currency, and Facebook is about to rob the bank.”

— Matt Drance

“All too often, the ones who are aggressively seeking the theory of the day don’t have a lot to show for what they did yesterday.”

— Seth Godin

“People will (and should) judge the shipping product and not some promises, so what you’ll get is what we shipped, and we need to be confident about it, and we are — all is good.”

— Marcus Fehn

“This, from the company that shitcanned Google Reader because they wanted to ‘focus’.”

— John Gruber

“To me, there’s nothing worse than waking up and realizing that the sun’s already been up for awhile.”

— Laird Hamilton

“The past wasn’t better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.”

— Frank Chimero

“Because people who don’t pay for smartphones buy so many apps.”

— The Macalope

“New Google is much more strategic, cold, and focused.”

— Marco Arment

“Welcome to a world where Google knows exactly what sort of porn you all like, and more about your interests than your spouse does.”

–Bruce Schneier

“The list of grandiose promises and statements made by Google that turned out to be false and hypocritical is uncomfortably long.”

— Kontra

“An undercover TSA inspector with an improvised explosive device stuffed in his pants got past two security screenings at Newark Airport — including a pat-down — and was cleared to get on board a commercial flight, sources told The Post yesterday.”

— Philip Messing and Chuck Bennett

“Is it way too late to take the ! out of our name? I always feel compelled to shout it. Granted, with larynx atrophy it only comes out as an anguished gurgle. Still. “

— Tim Sniffen

“Being able to walk into a store and purchase something right there at the entrance in less than five minutes is the absolute height of customer service.”

— Thomas Hawk