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“Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage International)

“But the plants seemed to remind me that we are by no means at the center of planetary telos because there is no center, only the distributed emergence of complexity and its dissolution (cosmos).”

— Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere

“Collage, the art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, was the most important innovation in the art of the twentieth century.”

— David Shields, Reality Hunger

“You believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality (judiciously, as you will), we’ll act again, creating other realit…”

— David Shields, Reality Hunger

“I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives. It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money — but an unspoken agreement of love.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, Relying on Friendship in a World Made for Couples

“But here’s a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the…”

— Joesph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome To The Night Vale: Episode 75, Through the Narrow Place

“If you feel too much, there’s still a place for you here. If you feel too much, don’t go. It this world is too painful, stop and rest. It’s okay to stop and rest. If you need a break, it’s okay to say you need a break.This life –it’s not a contest, not a race, not a performance, not a thing that you…”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.”

— Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Mayor Lenny Clotch, Ghostbusters II

“You are right, in one sense, when you speak of honesty. An effort, anyway, with the usual human or feminine retractions. To retreat is not feminine, male, or trickery. It is a terror before utter destruction. What we analyze inexorably, will it die? Will June die? Will our love die, suddenly, instan…”

— Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion

“When Facebook makes something a priority, there is a huge opportunity for fast moving, nimble, technical and hacker minded startups who can work fast enough to deconstruct the algorithms that determine what gets placed in the feed and optimize for that. The short term winners will do just that and s…”

— Jeremy Liew, On your marks. Get set. Go. The fourth Facebook goldrush just started.

“When that traffic drops, one way publishers can make up the difference is by paying Facebook to surface their stories in people’s feeds. “People are going to have to buy traffic from Facebook to level out the peaks and valleys,” one of the publishers said. “Long story short, they’re putting a vice a…”

— Lucia Moses, Digiday, Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic

“Some publishers saw their Facebook traffic nosedive last month, even as Facebook pushes initiatives designed to get users to stay in its app.”

— Digiday, Lucia Moses, Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic

“We are building for a future where Slack is dwarfed by the aggregate value of the companies built on top of it.”

— Slack API, The Slack Platform Roadmap

“Today, developers are increasingly turning to managed services for toolsets and infrastructure requirements — tasks traditionally managed by DevOps teams. AWS and other managed service providers have allowed for a dramatically simplified way of working, reducing complexity on the developer end and,…”

— Andrey Akselrod, Managed services killed DevOps

“Instead of implementing outbound link tracking ourselves, we used the autotrack plugin to do this for us. Autotrack comes with a set of plugins for tracking common user interactions. Theres a bunch of things it can help with, but the main one we wanted was the outboundLinkTracker plugin.”

— Chris Coyier, Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen

“The easiest way to send custom dimension data with your hits is to set their values on the tracker object. Since all hits sent from a tracker include all the key/value data it's currently storing, setting custom dimensions on the tracker will ensure those values get sent with all future hits.”

— Chris Coyier, Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen

“What happened to the days when tech companies were hiring good engineers. Nowadays this political correctness is going way way way over the top of common sense.”

— Unknown, Men of Designer News

“Erlang promotes the least amount of error handling in favor of quickly crashing processes. To address error recovery, Erlang defines the concept a supervision tree—a hierarchy of watchdog processes whose only responsibility is to restart failed worker processes.”

— Peter Hizalev, Why Erlang Matters

“Erlang designers made a great tradeoff from the outset: immutability and single assignment (very uncommon in conventional programming languages), enforced by the VM.”

— Peter Hizalev, Why Erlang Matters