“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” ~ David Lynch I am not convinced that I will ever understand all of the rules by which I live. Although, it is important to remember that “understand” is not the same as “agree [...]
From You Can’t Make Lawyers into Techies: 3 Lessons About LPM: Certainly, lawyers are not Luddites, determined to resist progress and deny any change. It’s that they are lawyers, not IT types. So that’s Lesson One: You can’t make lawyers talk IT; IT has to learn to talk lawyer. Lesson Two is that lawyers insist [...]
The Elusive Big Idea – NYTimes.com. In the past, we collected information not simply to know things. That was only the beginning. We also collected information to convert it into something larger than facts and ultimately more useful — into ideas that made sense of the information. We sought not just to apprehend the world [...]
The following quote caught my attention today: This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. [...]
Marissa Mayer, the V.P. of Search Product and User Experience at Google made an interesting point during the last ten minutes of her interview on the Charlie Rose show. (link) Charlie Rose: Why did you choose computer science at the beginning? Marissa Mayer: I grew up thinking I was going to be a doctor. And [...]
The following quote from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami has hung with me for a few days now: Reiko smiled too, cigarette in mouth. “You are a good person, though. I can tell that much from looking at you. I can tell these things after seven years of watching people come and go here: there [...]
If you don’t take advantage of yourself, someone else will. ~ Jakob Lodwick
“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.” ~ Agnes Martin
“I need some pocket tees to hold my new iPod.” ~ woman sitting behind me on plane.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain