Latest Quotes

“For most of the web, poor network connectivity destroys the user experience. We can do better.”

— Jake Archibald, Instant Loading: Building offline-first Progressive Web Apps - Google I/O 2016

“[Buzzfeed HQ] Interviewer: Give me 5 reasons for hiring you Me: I'll give you 13 reasons & you wont believe what #6 is I: You're hired”

— james nielssen, twitter.com

“An SEC filing has been made today with information about Snapchat’s latest Series F round, in which it has raised $1.8 billion. Separately, we’ve also obtained a leaked pitch deck, revealing Snapchat’s revenue and forecasts. The Los Angeles-based company recently started its monetization efforts and…”

— Katie Roof, Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round; leaked deck reveals revenues, user numbers

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“As middle-skilled roles disappear, workers may find that the 'rung' above them no longer exists, and that the career ladder may begin to look more like a career web.”

— Lynda Gratton, Building robot McDonald's staff 'cheaper' than hiring workers on minimum wage

“Robots are going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe.”

— Ed Rensi, Building robot McDonald's staff 'cheaper' than hiring workers on minimum wage

“I refuse to believe that journalism means massive privacy violations. I think much more highly of journalists than that. It’s precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker.”

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker

“It’s not for me to decide what happens to Gawker. If America rallies around Gawker and decides we want more people to be outed and more sex tapes to be posted without consent, then they will find a way to save Gawker, and I can’t stop it.”

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker

“We’ve been taught a woman’s body will cause men to sin. We’re told that if a woman shows too much of her body men will do stupid things. Let’s be clear: a woman’s body is not dangerous to you. Her body will not cause you harm. It will not make you do stupid things. If you do stupid things it is beca…”

— Nate Pyle, What I Want My Son To Know About Women

“It really is crazy that the word “feminist” can have negative connotations in 2014. It upsets me that the younger generation of women think it’s a dirty word, and associate it with a kind of militantism or a sense of female superiority. It’s not. It just means liberation, and equality.”

— Natalie Dormer, Natalie Dormer Talks ‘Hunger Games,’ Feminism, and Why ‘Game of Thrones’ Needs More Dick

“When I was alive, I used to travel. When I died, Amit used to tell his friends that I was a pilot. It's a joke because you don't know where I am, just that I'm not coming back.”

— Yena Sharma Purmasir, When I'm Not There

“you fell apart in my hands like fruit I waited too long to eat”

— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young

“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.”

— Brian Adreas, "She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short."

“Let's play truth or dare. Or just dare because nobody ever really tells the truth anymore.”

— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when…”

— Steve Jobs, The Only Way to do Great Work is to love what you do

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing…”

— Rob Siltanen, Here's to the Crazy Ones, Think Different - Apple

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— JK Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Reality is what people who lack vision see.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit