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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If you want to be happy, you need to stop chasing happiness. Happiness is a byproduct of doing things that are challenging, meaningful, beautiful and worthwhile. It is wiser to spend a life chasing knowledge, or the ability to think clearly and with more dimension, than it is to just chase what “fee…”

— Brianna Wiest, Stop Chasing Happiness

“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”

— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“I don't broadcast every high and I don't hide every low. I'm trying to live, I'm not trying to convince the world I have a life.”

— Rob Hill Sr., via twitter.com

“The problem is that network effects just aren’t as durable as they used to be...Currently, modern technology — fueled by software, the internet, and the cloud — makes it possible for a challenger to enter the market at minimal cost. Price competition doesn’t matter much since the winner that took al…”

— David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to the Platform Economy

“Experience also shows us that that network effects can also work in reverse, and destroy value with explosive speed. This has happened to many shopping malls. When consumer traffic drops a little, a few stores leave, the mall becomes less attractive. Then traffic reduces a little more, more stores l…”

— David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to the Platform Economy

“But the new economics of multisided platforms, which we explore in detail in Matchmakers, shows that the winner-takes-all theory doesn’t describe most internet platforms. What markets have these companies actually won? If you think Google is the winner in search, Facebook in social networks, and Twi…”

— David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to the Platform Economy

“Design marked by a 'ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy' in 'reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today’s Web design.'”

— Katherine Arcement, The hottest trend in Web design is making intentionally ugly, difficult sites

“In just the last year, we’ve seen 1.2 million downloads and a growing community of hundreds of developers, open source maintainers, and companies who use the framework as the foundation of their apps. They’ve built everything from email, chat, and Git apps to SQL analytics tools, torrent clients, an…”

— Jessica Lord, Electron 1.0 is here

“An artist is a creature driven by demons.”

— William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12: An Interview by Jean Stein

“If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual and Michelangelo is not. And today, with a computer, everybody is an intellectual. So I don’t think it has anything to do with someone’s profession or with someone’s socia…”

— Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197: An Interview by Lila Azam Zanganeh

“1,500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

— Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black

“Her lips are covered in the ink of so many murmured promises and wishes, placed there from a hundred people who kissed her and fell out of her life as quickly as the sun does each night.”

— Mia Ingallina, The Weight Of The World Is Too Heavy To Carry On Your Shoulders Alone

“We came to the conclusion that there were millions of people that want a better and more personalized search experience than currently exists, but are averse to check-ins and location sharing.”

— Sam Brown, Designing the new Foursquare

“We started with the basics, removed ornamentation, and flattened the icon. And we arrived at a brighter, flatter option — but was it better? Would we feel the need to do this again in a year?”

— Ian Spalter, Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

“Everybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you wal…”

— Mark Manson, The Most Important Question of Your Life

“No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic? The reason we don't get talker…”

— Seth Godin, Talker's Block

“While the icon is a colorful doorway into the Instagram app, once inside the app, we believe the color should come directly from the community’s photos and videos.”

— Ian Spalter, Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community

“The first lesson — great men are always the kindest. The second lesson was that they nearly always lead the simplest lives.”

— Stefan Zweig, Collected Stories, Stefan Zweig