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  1. “PayPal was a place where the younger engineers could and would sometimes wrestle with each other on the floor to solve disputes! If you didn’t get the odd mix of nerdiness + alpha maleness, you just stuck out.”

    blakemasters.tumblr.com
    baetsie

  2. “If I have seen less far than others, it was because giants were standing on my shoulders.”

    www.guardian.co.uk
    baetsie

  3. “Similarly large clusters of SuperZIPs can be found around New York City, Los Angeles, the San Francisco-San Jose corridor, Boston and a few of the nation's other largest cities. Because running major institutions in this country usually means living near one of these cities, it works out that the nation's power elite does in fact live in a world that is far more culturally rarefied and isolated than the world of the power elite in 1960. And the isolation is only going to get worse. Increasingly, the people who run the country were born into that world. Unlike the typical member of the elite in 1960, they have never known anything but the new upper-class culture. We are now seeing more and more third-generation members of the elite. Not even their grandparents have been able to give them a window into life in the rest of America.”

    online.wsj.com
    baetsie

  4. “il ne suffit pas d'être soi-même un homme pour comprendre ipso facto tout ce qui relève de l'humain”

    www.lemonde.fr
    xuv

  5. “When culture is privatised, as has happened recently online, you end up with a few giant players - the Googles and Amazons. It's better to put up with the rancour and pain of a single community, of some form of democracy, than to live in a world overseen by a few forces you hope will be benevolent. The stress of accommodation opens cracks from which brilliance emerges.”

    www.newstatesman.com
    baetsie

  6. “One of the most difficult balancing acts of being black and progressive is fighting against and pushing back on bigotry and regressive attitudes, while still arguing for a fuller humanity that allows individual Negroes their imperfections and their ignorance. We have to argue that black people, in essence, get to be horribly wrong about shit, without it being seen as some larger cultural failing.”

    www.postbourgie.com
    protoslacker

  7. ““The loudest duck gets shot” is a Chinese proverb. “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” is a Japanese one. Its Western correlative: “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.””

    nymag.com
    baetsie

  8. “The bulk of Laugh-In consisted of irrelevant vaudeville bits that ignored the war, the draft, the riots and the protest. It embraced the look and sound of the hippies and had no problem making references to getting high, but when it came to the major issues, it lacked substance. Whereas Tom Smothers found himself on Nixon's enemies list, Rowan and Martin found themselves on Nixon's guest list.”

    blog.wfmu.org
    protoslacker

  9. “Broccoli tastes magnificent, and if I have to spend the rest of my days eating pixie-stick flavoured tomatoes because you assholes failed to develop adult palates I will never forgive you.”

    distorte.tumblr.com
    Zelnox

  10. “Applying Carroll’s theories to Britons, you understand why foreigners think we are repressed. Americans won’t touch strangers, the French won’t talk to them, but Brits will neither touch nor talk to them.”

    www.ft.com
    protoslacker