February 2010
1 post
She gave only what was easy for her; what came naturally and instinctively. What she had always given of herself to past lovers, but nothing more.
That was usually enough for them, at least in the short run, because she was very special in her way. As a result, she never made any genuine effort to go beyond her old safe boundaries, the first layer, below the thin topsoil of her limitations. She...
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
3 posts
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– OscarZetaAcosta
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
2 posts
“The thing is, it’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”
– Jonathan Ive (via minimalmac)
July 2009
3 posts
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
4 posts
“You don’t trust people because they’re a sure bet or even a good...”
– Spin State, Chris Moriarty
“Don’t waste your life screaming into the void. Make things, measure them, have...”
– Alex Payne — Mending The Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion
March 2009
3 posts
December 2008
0 posts
“…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream...”
– Neil Gaiman
October 2008
1 post
“There are three levels to happiness: pleasure, the delight you get from...”
– Martin Seligman
September 2008
3 posts
“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and...”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable....”
– Neil Gaiman
August 2008
2 posts
“Let me see if I understand your thesis. You think we shouldn’t...”
– Sidney Morgenbesser to B. F. Skinner
June 2008
1 post
May 2008
3 posts
玉不琢不成器
Jade that is not chiselled cannot become a gem
Superfluous Advice
Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and swear they lie. — Dorothy Parker
March 2008
3 posts
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham
Symptoms of Love
Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers? — Robert Graves
February 2008
2 posts
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair...
The supreme good
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are...
January 2008
4 posts
“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”
– Jamie Zawinski
The only path to serenity.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back.
December 2007
0 posts
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman