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“I contracted for a startup going through an accelerator, where one of the teams were building a unique database of user-generated photographs, and these photos were of artwork. Artwork like awesome graffiti, unknown installations, etc., and this data was not available anywhere else on the Internet.”

— Phil Sturgeon, Auto-Incrementing IDs: Giving your Data Away

“var parser = document.createElement('a'); parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash"; parser.protocol; // => "http:" parser.hostname; // => "example.com" parser.port; // => "3000" parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/" parser.search; // => "?search=test" parser.hash; // => "#has…”

— John W. Long, URI Parsing with Javascript

“There are Muslim women wearing hijab in our nation’s military. Whether it’s hijab or beards or turbans, to cling to these outdated ‘traditions’ merely out of a sense of not wanting to change anything is, I think, untenable in this day and age and in our increasingly diverse society.”

— Ibrahim Hooper, The Citadel will not allow an exception to the uniform to let a Muslim student wear her hijab

“He might dance down the street on his way to work, gaze into the eyes of a complete stranger and speak of love at first sight, or defend an apparently absurd idea. Warriors of light allow themselves days like these.He is not afraid to weep over ancient sorrows or feel joy at new discoveries. When he…”

— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light: A Manual

“Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.”

— David Ogilvy, No Results Found

“Talk about the ideas in the work everywhere. Talk about the work itself nowhere. Don’t be the person who tweets “I’m working on my novel.” Be too busy writing for that. Helen Simpson has “Faire et se taire” from Flaubert on a Post-it near her desk, which she translates as “Shut up and get on with it…”

— Ryan Holiday, 44 Writing Hacks From Some of the Greatest Writers Who Ever Lived

“I’m never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I am thinking, ‘Can I do something with that?'”

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“You want to ask, am I lonely? Well, of course, lonely as a woman driving across country day after day, leaving behind mile after mile little towns she might have stopped and lived and died in, lonely”

— Adrienne Rich, "Song," Diving Into The Wreck

“I need you as the one luminous point in my madness.”

— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion

“Animals are here with us, not for us.”

— Jenny Brown, The Lucky Ones

“The spectacular truth is — and this is something that your DNA has known all along— the very atoms of your body — the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on — were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you…”

— Gerald D. Waxman, Astronomical Tidbits

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“As a startup, you often have competitors. Letting those competitors know the size of your data set, and how many users you have in your system, could lead to some pretty embarrassing situations.”

— Phil Sturgeon, Auto-Incrementing IDs: Giving your Data Away

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— XL-Central, How To Search Across Multiple Sheets In Excel

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”

— Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars Of Self Esteem

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“The wind sounds like paper; our sex is no problem. The elms are as green and as fresh as oaks; we taste of aerial fluids and drugs. There are curious crystallizations; we are the dream of conflict. There goes the sun; we influence contingency.”

— Lisa Robertson, The Weather

“These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn’t have to clean them up like this.”

— Richard Siken, Crush

“We don’t always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel.”

— Scott Hildreth, Finding Parker