Jack Baty's collection of found quotes and such

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  1. Whenever presented with evidence of a transitional species, claim that it’s not, and ask for another transitional species between it and the other species.
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— Cool Things About Being a Creationist
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“There’s a world of difference between queue-able and interruptive media, and we bridge it at our peril.”
— Cory Doctorow - The Pleasures of Uninterrupted Communication
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“I asked him if he’d come up with a few options. And he said “No, I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay me. And you don’t have to use the solution; if you want options, go talk to other people.”
— Interview with Steve Jobs about Paul Rand
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“The MacBook Air isn’t so much a laptop as a couple of sheets of paper stapled together that just happens to run Mac OS X.”
— Twitter / Fraser Speirs
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“Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business”
— Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com
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“Treat different people differently. But don’t treat anyone worse.”
— Seth’s Blog: The bad table
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“The unique morphology of the human female pelvis served as an obstacle to easy access of the male in the process of copulation, necessitating the female’s conscious decision for sexual intercourse. This circumstance might have created a psychological basis for female propellant psychosexual manipulation of the male as a natural consequence.”
— the new shelton wet/dry
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“I could eat a handful of angle brackets and puke better markup than this.”
— Twitter / Mike Gunderloy
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“twat” (n.) - Twitter post that self-links to blog post, whitepaper, or webinar on using Twitter to promote yourself. Alt.: author of same.”
— Twitter / Merlin Mann
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Jess via IM

  • Jess: whatev nevermind.
  • Jess: peace
  • Jess: homie
  • Jess: G
  • Jess: Skillet
  • Jess: biscuit
  • Jess: bro
  • Jess: dawg
  • Jess: cuz
  • Jess: son
  • Jess: k bye
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“Three sweetest words in the first world: “OUT FOR DELIVERY.”
— Twitter / Merlin Mann
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“One of the hoariest of the hoary cliches is that a good photographer can take a good photograph with just about any camera. Horseshit.”
— Your Camera Does Matter
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“I don’t meet anyone at the water cooler who thinks torture should be legal. I don’t meet anyone who thinks the Justice Department should be run as part of the spoils system and should prosecute the political enemies of the current administration. I don’t meet anyone at the water cooler who thinks we’re better off having fought the Iraq War than having sent those thousands of dead soldiers to Harvard and, with the left-over money, funded Social Security into the 22nd century.”
— Mark Bernstein on Mamet: Why I Am No Longering A Brain-Dead Liberal
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“If all you do is work, your value judgements are unlikely to be sound.”
— Fire the workaholics - (37signals)
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“The less you know, the more you believe.”
— Bono
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