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"First, I’m just the sort of person who kind of knows what he wants to say; I can’t..."

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:10:05 -0400

“First, I’m just the sort of person who kind of knows what he wants to say; I can’t remember ever staring at the blank screen, trying to think of what to write.”

- From the Desk of David Pogue - Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed

Geek clock

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:23:06 -0400

Geek clock

lickystickypickyme: Albert honey… You look hot…….except the...

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:21:59 -0400

lickystickypickyme:

Albert honey…

You look hot…….except the shoes.
Those shoes are awful….AWFUL.

"the research of Hart & Risley has shown that over half of the variance in a child’s vocabulary..."

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:21:34 -0400

“the research of Hart & Risley has shown that over half of the variance in a child’s vocabulary at age 3 can be attributed to the ways in which a parent talks to their child, and the way parents talk to their children varies dramatically depending on socioeconomic status. Specifically, they estimate that by age 4 the children of professional parents have been exposed to about 45 million words, whereas the children of welfare parents have been exposed to only about 13 million words. This means that by the time children are 3 years old, parents in less economically favored circumstances have said fewer different words in their cumulative monthly vocabularies than the children in the most economically advantaged families in the same period of time.”

- Sensemaking: How intellectual pollution has crippled America’s children

"A nerd is someone who has undying dedication to an academic subject"

Fri, 08 May 2009 13:32:03 -0400

“A nerd is someone who has undying dedication to an academic subject”

- A ‘nerd’ shoots for the stars, and NASA comes knocking

Ten things.

Mon, 04 May 2009 13:52:32 -0400

Ten things.

"Put the book aside and hide your notes. Then recall everything you can. Write it down, or, if..."

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:52:46 -0400

“Put the book aside and hide your notes. Then recall everything you can. Write it down, or, if you’re uninhibited, say it out loud.”

- Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down. - Chronicle.com

"Management theory came to life in 1899 with a simple question: “How many tons of pig iron bars can a..."

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:06:11 -0400

“Management theory came to life in 1899 with a simple question: “How many tons of pig iron bars can a worker load onto a rail car in the course of a working day?””

- The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart

"It turns out that it doesn’t take much heresy to lock ourselves into a fantasy world."

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:14:21 -0400

“It turns out that it doesn’t take much heresy to lock ourselves into a fantasy world.”

- What You Can’t Say

"You don’t see faces much happier than people winning gold medals. And you know why..."

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:14:46 -0400

“You don’t see faces much happier than people winning gold medals. And you know why they’re so happy? Relief.”

- What You’ll Wish You’d Known

"What makes you feel less bored soon makes you into an addict."

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:22:24 -0400

“What makes you feel less bored soon makes you into an addict.”

- Better | 43 Folders

"But if I work harder I’ll be a millionaire! Of course I’m being facetious. If hard work..."

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:26:48 -0500

“But if I work harder I’ll be a millionaire!
Of course I’m being facetious. If hard work made everyone successful, history’s slaves would have all become kings at some point in their lives.”

- http://tr.im/12se

"Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, author Computer programming I have now kicked the habit,..."

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:15:14 -0400

“

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, author

Computer programming

I have now kicked the habit, but every so often the craving returns and I must thrust it down and away. But whence the guilt? Isn’t programming useful? In the right hands, yes. But my projects (inventing a word processor, machine translation from one programming language to another, inventing a programming language of my own) could all be done better (and were) by professionals. It was a classic addiction: prolonged frustration, occasionally rewarded by a briefly glowing fix of achievement. It was that pernicious “just one more push to see what’s over the next mountain and then I’ll call it a day” syndrome. It was a lonely vice, interfering with sleeping, eating, useful work and healthy human intercourse. I’m glad it’s over and I won’t start up again. Except … perhaps one day, just a little …

”

- http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/feb/03/weekend7.weekend5

"They wanted the “nut” and nothing else."

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:55:18 -0400

“They wanted the “nut” and nothing else.”

- Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind

"But when it comes to programming, there are only so many things you can sacrifice! You can cut down..."

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:36:13 -0400

“But when it comes to programming, there are only so many things you can sacrifice! You can cut down on your documentation. You can cut down on commenting your code. You can cut down on email conversations and participation in online discussions, preferring group discussions and hallway conversations.”

- Programming’s Dirtiest Little Secret

"The statistics about reading are particularly discouraging: The average software developer, for..."

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:15:15 -0400

““The statistics about reading are particularly discouraging: The average software developer, for example, doesn’t own a single book on the subject of his or her work, and hasn’t ever read one. That fact is horrifying for anyone concerned about the quality of work is the field; for folks like us who write books, it’s positively tragic.”
- From Peopleware, Productive Projects and Teams by Tom De Marco and Timothy Lister (2nd Ed, page 12)”

- The Programming Elite, Programmers Who Read

"My “intro to programming” class used Java and I think we would have been better off using Python,..."

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:58:28 -0400

“My “intro to programming” class used Java and I think we would have been better off using Python, for example. I had known Java before, but the other students seemed to spend so much time struggling with the type system, the package system, the IDE and the libraries we used that they didn’t seem to have much time left to learn about programming.”

- http://lin.cr/1ar

Orissa and press partiality

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:36:10 -0400

Orissa and press partiality

"Parents and teachers can engender a growth mind-set in children by praising them for their effort or..."

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:33:57 -0400

“Parents and teachers can engender a growth mind-set in children by praising them for their effort or persistence (rather than for their intelligence), by telling success stories that emphasize hard work and love of learning, and by teaching them about the brain as a learning machine.”

- Scientific American

"Web design is as much a service industry as brain surgery. Allowing a customer to dictate and..."

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:46:31 -0400

“Web design is as much a service industry as brain surgery. Allowing a customer to dictate and micromanage the procedure will have similar results. Something will end up fucking retarded”

- http://is.gd/2jZX