Latest Quotes

“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He's one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Most of the time product design is just making slightly prettier versions of spreadsheets.”

— Kyle Turman, twitter.com

“Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Nowadays, the primary gaps between native and web is not so much technological. It’s user experience.”

— Bruce Lawson, The W3C App Manifest specification

“Like all good ad clichés, it manages to suggest everything and mean nothing.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“Changing my last name to Java so when i die I can be buried in Java's Crypt”

— Willman, twitter.com

“Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people’s sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and…”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“Node’s 'event loop' is central to being able to handle high throughput scenarios. It is a magical place filled with unicorns and rainbows, and is the reason Node can essentially be 'single threaded' while still allowing an arbitrary number of operations to be handled in the background.”

— Alexandra Grant, The Way of the Gopher

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays