Latest Quotes

“I've been waiting to meet you.”

— Lana Del Rey, Be Air

“Twisting off to the sun, all my missions float away, I've got no Houston to whine down to, I've got no protocol. My soul is celestial-bound.”

— Ken Andrews, Another Space Song

“You know that I’m two levels above you baby. Talking crazy ain’t gonna leave you nothing but choked. And that jealousy is gonna leave you broke. So the only thing left now for these cats is God. And you know we’re too hard for these cats, I’m going win cause I’m too smart for these cats.”

— Puff Daddy, Victory

“With everyone’s interests misaligned, the hoped-for network effects won’t materialize.”

— Alex Magnin, Medium For Publishers Will Be A Hard Sell

“Though we may be sober now, we will never be clean.”

— Bianca Sparacino, We love certain people like addictions

“Narratives in which one thing follows from the previous thing are usually imaginary.”

— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

“the Facebook codebase has over 20,000 React components, and that’s not even counting React Native”

— Dan Abramov, React v15.0

“React 15 no longer emits extra nodes around the text, making the DOM output much cleaner.”

— Dan Abramov, React v15.0

“We’re switching to major versions to indicate that we have been using React in production for a long time.”

— Dan Abramov, React v15.0

“We are now using document.createElement instead of setting innerHTML when mounting components. This allows us to get rid of the data-reactid attribute on every node and make the DOM lighter. Using document.createElement is also faster in modern browsers and fixes a number of edge cases related to SV…”

— Dan Abramov, React v15.0

“Search engines and social networks are always trying to crawl your pages, but they only see the javascript tags...We render your javascript in a browser, save the static HTML, and you return that to the crawlers!”

— Prender.io, How it Works

“The idea is simple: we’re going to have our application running from our application port, and then a PhantomJS instance of our application running from a snapshot port. Requests from non-bots will be served directly from our application port (it doesn’t matter what port that is), and requests from…”

— Jesse Lawson, Diy Angular JS Seo with Phantom JS ( The easy way! )

“You are ancient ideas in a mortal body.”

— Nikita Gill, If You Are Still Fighting But Losing Hope, Read This

“This is a confession: I love you. Last Sunday in church— bad you, who refused to come to see our beautiful new windows!— only last Sunday, my dear one, when I asked the Lord what to do about it, I was told to act as I am acting now. You see, there is no alternative. I have loved you from the minute…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Charlotte Haze, Lolita (Vintage International)

“Since a subtle interaction exists between sound and shape, I see q as browner than k, while s is not the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International)

“It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“Lenin had been a risk-taker. Trotsky had been one, too, until Stalin had made him the Bill Gates of the Soviet Union, the excoriated crypto-reactionary. But Stalin himself hadn’t needed to take so many risks, because terror worked better. Although, to a man, the new revolutionaries all claimed to wo…”

— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel

“It was Andreas’s gift, maybe his greatest, to find singular niches in totalitarian regimes. The Stasi was the best friend he’d ever had— until he met the Internet... The New Regime even recycled the old Republic’s buzzwords, collective, collaborative.”

— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel

“He indulged it at first, trying to be a good man, trying to live up to an ideal image that he, too, still had of himself, but there was finally no way around it: endless discussion with a humorless twenty-three-year-old bored him. During the day, when they were apart, he kept picturing her solemn ga…”

— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel

“Few things were more alike than one revolution to another. Then again, he’d experienced only the kind that loudly called itself a revolution. The mark of a legitimate revolution— the scientific, for example— was that it didn’t brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.”

— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel