Latest Quotes

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.”

— iO Tillett Wright, Fifty Shades of Gay

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”

— James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

“All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.”

— iO Tillett Wright, Unknown

“We invited artists from various disciplines to create a piece around a single hashtag to be displayed in an integrated gallery experience”

— Hashtags Unplugged, hashtagsunplugged.com

“The irony is that when you code, you usually check for the edge cases first. When you design, you usually get to them last”

— Full Story, Engaging engineers in the design process

“And then one day it hit me. Something of real consequence was happening. We were at the start of a great renaissance of public shaming. After a lull of almost 180 years (public punishments were phased out in 1837 in the United Kingdom and in 1839 in the United States), it was back in a big way. When…”

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”

— Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder

“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”

— Anonymous, 31 Famous Quotations You’ve Been Getting Wrong

“The more I live the more I think two people together is a miracle.”

— Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems

“Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“Art is the only way to ascend to God, doing what our divine Master did, create.”

— Paul Gauguin, giving advice to his good friend Émile Schuffenecker

“When you force yourself into someone's daughter, you rape generations of women.”

— Aman Batra, Ikea

“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Has anyone yet said publicly how nice it is to write on rubber with a ballpoint pen? The slow, fat, ink-rich line, rolled over a surface at once dense and yielding, makes for a multidimensional experience no single sheet of paper can offer.”

— Nicholson Baker, The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Vintage Contemporaries)

“Shortly put: a better web experience.”

— Daniel Haxx, An HTTP2 world

“One major goal is to allow the use of a single connection from browsers to a Web site.”

— IETF HTTP Working Group, HTTP/2

“In the future, we plan to develop new tools to help our users to make more educated decisions in regards to Server Push. Over time, CloudFlare will even be able to predict the best assets to push automatically.”

— Vlad Krasnov, Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push

“Generally, the downside of pushing assets that will end up unused is only the wasted bandwidth, while the upside is a speedup equivalent to one round trip from the client to our edge network.”

— Vlad Krasnov, Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push

“Server Push enables websites and APIs to speculatively deliver content to the web browser before the browser sends a request for it. This behavior is opportunistic, since in some cases, the content might already be in the client’s cache or not required at all.”

— Vlad Krasnov, Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push

“Automated subway systems are becoming more common around the world. Some systems allow fully automated operation, from operating the doors to detecting obstructions on the track and handling emergency situations. But a fully automated multi-modal transit system — from train to car — would be a first…”

— Jordan Golson, Deutsche Bahn looking at adding autonomous cars to its mass transit network