“ Most of the creations of intellect or fancy pass away for good after a time that varies between an after-dinner hour and a generation. Some, however, do not.
Joseph A. Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
opensoul
“ First they came for the communists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemöller
and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemöller
Music and Life - Alan Watts
“ We’ve become so obsessed with building baseball fields, that we forget that we’re supposed to play in them
Ze Frank
Happiness in Business (via budcaddell)
We Didn’t Start the Flame War (via collegehumor)
Hilarious and depressingly true.
“ The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if they don’t implement it, the spec is nothing but a work of fiction. So they have a lot of influence—I don’t want to be writing fiction, I want to be writing a spec that documents the actual behaviour of browsers.
Whether that’s too much, I don’t know. Does gravity have too much influence on objects on earth? It’s just the way it is. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification, on whether the browser vendors have too much influence
Whether that’s too much, I don’t know. Does gravity have too much influence on objects on earth? It’s just the way it is. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification, on whether the browser vendors have too much influence
