Latest Quotes

“I saw faces all given to love, adorned by the Light of Another, and by their own smile.”

— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

“In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home.”

— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

“WordPress is in a market as competitive as it has ever been, especially on the proprietary and closed side. I believe WordPress will win, first and foremost, because of its community — the hundreds of core developers and large commercial companies, the tens of thousands of plugin and theme developer…”

— Matt Mullenweg, New Funding for Automattic

“I know what real radicals look like — and they did not go on to graduate school.”

— Camille Paglia, Crisis In The American Universities

“When the image is new, the world is new.”

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“Forces are manifested in poems that do not pass through the circuits of knowledge.”

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“A common advertising campaign strategy, especially in subway and bus ads, seems to involve trading on New Yorkers’ mythic negativity by reminding them what curmudgeons they still are. 'New Yorkers love us and they hate everything,' an ad for Oscar health insurance says. 'Over eight million people in…”

— Meghan Daum, Returning to a Gentler Gotham

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know.”

— Alfred Adler, what's normal anyway?

“If you can't do something right, do it wrong.”

— Chris Lavergne, Thought Catalog

“Everything in moderation, including moderation”

— Oscar Wilde, wisdom

“Can we just skip the vibe and go straight to us laughing about this?”

— Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”

— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“From where, from whom, this mourning, or these tears of joy — I do not know; one must believe.”

— Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind

“How do you know that you’re a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don’t, there’s no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside.”

— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel

“One major mistake Schneider had seen was how companies confused supporting roles, like legal, human resources, and information technology, with product creation roles like design and development. Product creators are the true talent of any corporation, especially one claiming to bet on innovation. T…”

— Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

“The most dangerous tradition we hold about work is that it must be serious and meaningless.”

— Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

“The problem with problem-solving methods, which all business methodologies are, is that they are abstractions, but the world is not abstract. Real work contains hard parts that no method can dictate for you.”

— Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

“The honest test of the value of any management activity is to run projects without some of them and observe how well people perform with a lighter touch. It’s a test few leaders have the courage to take.”

— Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

“It takes more passion to choose, on your own, to build a website, a mobile application, or a company than to follow years of instructions to get a degree. A GPA is not a strong indicator of passion, except for the dubious motivations of wanting to find the right answer to other people’s questions. D…”

— Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work