Category: quotes

And thanks to Twitter further eroding the wall between your big mouth and a moment required to download some good sense, the Internet is now empowered to get you fired faster than ever.

Helen A.S. Popkin in “Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less” [msnbc.msn.com]

I wonder how this will pan out in 20 years… when the perpetrators of the drunkfails are in positions of power? Will they ignore others online persona or will we all learn to keep our online persona and our professional persona separated enough to avoid such tragicomedies?

…and remember the Internet never forgets! [confusion.cc]

“‘Startup’ means convincing customers and investors you know how to run before you have learned to crawl.”

beggs

“In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: “Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine.” Who it was that won the cast, and whether it was Fate or whether Chance that went through the mists before THE BEGINNING to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI — none knoweth.”

Lord Dunsany, from The Gods of Pegāna [wikipedia.org].

Full book available via Project Gutenberg [gutenburg.com].

“It’s a major chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully someone out there will build a better mousetrap …”

Timothy [monkey.org] in a post on Slashdot [slashdot.org]

Brilliant mixing of metaphors! Just Brilliant!

“Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”

President-Elect, Barack Obama

I think it’s nice to have someone heading to the White House that can use words in such a way as to inspire people. The expectations are high, the rhetoric impressive, now we wait with bated breath for the reality.