“The promise of the web is that anyone can access content using any browser on any device. Woven into this promise are some of humanity’s greatest aspirations — self-determination, freedom, education and discovery. Designing for cross-browser compatibility opens your work up to the largest possible a…”— Justin Crawford, hacks.mozilla.org
“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“Everybody wants to talk about the politics of my grief but nobody wants to talk about my grief.”— Jejune Being, facebook.com
“Online, we don’t have access to social cues. There’s no one on the receiving end of our jabs and tirades and vitriol. All we see are words on a screen in a text box. Empathy is null and void. Sometimes, I write things down that I think and feel and post them on the internet. Maybe you like to cook f…”— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“A wise man who I loved very much once said: “Let’s stop finding a new witch of the week and burning them at the stake. We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out.””— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“Maybe people are just shitty. Or maybe it’s the internet’s fault. Or maybe people are just shitty and it’s the internet’s fault.”— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain— and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”— Marianne Williamson, skdesigns.com
“There are an infinite number of methods to attain knowledge; finding the right method is up to the individual.”— Kenya Hara, amazon.com
“When strongly disagreeing with another, most of us have a tendency to see things solely through our own world view.… In these circumstances, it can be constructive to take a minute to understand why the other person has reached the conclusion that they have. For instance, what in their background ha…”— Jeff Weiner, linkedin.com
“Instead of asking yourself, 'How can they think that?!' ask yourself, 'I wonder what information they have that I don’t?' Instead of asking, 'How can they be so irrational?' ask, 'How might they see the world such that their view makes sense?'”— Douglas Stone, amazon.com
“I am obligated to try to see the world through George Bush’s eyes, no matter how much I may disagree with him. That’s what empathy does— it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor. We are all shaken out of our complacenc…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com