“ In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird. ”
George Orwell, 1984
“ But the company has declined to do banner ads, said Newmark. He added he already makes enough money. “Banner ads are often kind of dumb, and they slow the site down. I’m not interested,” he said. ”
Craigslist founder talks about open source, banner ads - Yahoo! News (via sox) (via david)
“I am a Muslim”
Kill me & call it
“Collateral Damage”
Imprison me & call it
“Security Measure”
Exile my people en masse & call it
“New Middle East”
Rob my resources, Invade my land,
alter my leadership & call it
“Democracy”
(via Edge of Space)
“ I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ”
Albert Einstein
“ The [Microsoft]-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster. ”
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy’s three-legged race
“ True compassion, is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. ”
“ The implicit message of the Macintosh, as unforgettably expressed in the great “1984” commercial, was Power to the People. Jobs’s [new] vision […] serves a different mandate: Give the People What They Want. ”
from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html
this old quote sums up the amazing shift Steve Jobs underwent, from the idealistic hippie kid with dreams of changing the world, who famously and with much contempt and impudence told John Scully “do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world”, to an old, jaded, albeit hugely successful capitalist, himelf peddling, not exactly”sugared water”, but fake shiny lifestyles and delusions of elite status, creativity and freedom
“ …knowing begins with the awareness of the deceptiveness of our commonsense perceptions, in the sense that our picture of physical reality does not correspond to what is “really real” and, mainly, in the sense that most people are half-awake, half-dreaming, and are unaware that most of what they hold to be true and self-evident is illusion produced by the suggestive influence of the social world in which they live ”
~ Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be
