Category: quotes

“‘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.

“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.

You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.

You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety.

And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.

You died when you refused to stand up for right.

You died when you refused to stand up for truth.

You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., giving a sermon titled “But if Not” at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in November, 1967, lifted from Democracy Now! [democracynow.org] via Boing Boing [boingboing.net].