January 2012
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“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is...”
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society—things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess...
December 2011
3 posts
"You've baked a great cake, but you've frosted it...
Steve Jobs: visionary, wordsmith.
November 2011
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OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. →
October 2011
3 posts
From a memo I wrote two years ago in preparation for the Fortune piece —
Jobs, even back in the early days of Apple Computer Co., has believed that he was “changing the world.” He used — and still uses — this rhetoric often in his public MacWorld presentations, and lured Scully away from his presidency at PepsiCo with the line, “do you want to sell sugared water for the...
September 2011
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August 2011
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“This is the room, one...
c'est ma vie, et je l'envoie en l'air →
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is...
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July 2011
5 posts
“You’ve got to start on their playing field, but that doesn’t mean...”
– Gary Hirshberg.
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Autrefois, tout se passait comme dans un nuage...
June 2011
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May 2011
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them...
Walter Benjamin
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April 2011
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March 2011
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"For we all of us, grave or light, get our...
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February 2011
11 posts
Don't Believe Everything You Think
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A Recipe for a Better Afternoon →
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iConfess
An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States.
Confession: A Roman Catholic app, thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority, walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the company behind the program describes as a “personalized...
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