October 2011
54 posts
“Advertising agencies aren’t paid to become experts on the client’s business, so...”
– - Farrah Bostic
http://prettylittlehead.com/a-business-model-set-to-self-destruct/
Relative Pitch: Evil Knievel - Startup Genius →
extensionfm:
I saw this today in my Tumblr radar.
Evil Knievel jumping the Caesar’s Palace Fountains in 1967 via House of Evil While the photo is incredible, it’s the story behind the photo that is even more spectacular. Read this excerpt from Wikipedia and tell me it doesn’t sound like a Startup…
“As always there are those who reveal their asininity (as they did throughout his...”
– Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
http://bit.ly/sZcwrs
“‘This is a golden age for creativity and knowledge for their own sakes....”
“One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way...”
““Good interface design is as transparent as possible, because I don’t want...”
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Ian McKellen should be the voice of everything ever.
Probably the single most badass thing about this is that he doesn’t crack himself up. Not so much as a single traitorous, unbidden upturn in the corner of his mouth.
““It’s 95 degrees and the humidity is 80%. People don’t understand that....”
– I sometimes muse, with regret, that it’s difficult to describe what I do (for a living) to my parents. It’s not just them, I don’t have a soundbite for when I meet other people either. Usually, it’s understated, like, “design”. That’s with a lower-case d.
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