"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“This has been building for over a decade,” said Mr. Kagan, the analyst. “The customer just kept getting angrier. Now the cable bundle model is dead. It made everyone in the business a lot of money, but consumers didn’t want it. Now they’ve got choices.
“Netflix and Amazon have been incredibly successful at delivering content over the Internet. There are a lot of public companies involved in this, and we’ll have to see which ones embrace change and lead and which ones don’t.”
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— Verizon Takes to the Battlefield (via johnborthwick)
(via fred-wilson)
"Don’t wait for permission to make something that’s interesting or amusing to you. Just do it now. Don’t wait. Find a story idea, start making it, give yourself a deadline, show it to people who’ll give you notes to make it better. Don’t wait till you’re older, or in some better job than you have now. Don’t wait for anything. Don’t wait till some magical story idea drops into your lap. That’s not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it’ll show up. Begin now. Be a fucking soldier about it and be tough."
— Ira Glass (via richardschang)
(via garychou)
"We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realising it. We digitise things because we think we will preserve them, but what we don’t understand is that unless we take other steps, those digital versions may not be any better, and may even be worse, than the artefacts that we digitised…If there are photos you really care about, print them out."
— Vint Cerf, Google (via bijan)
(Source: philkneen.wordpress.com, via bijan)
"It never occurred to me to ask for something so clearly and directly."
— Adrian Parsons: Asking for things is hard. (via orbitalnyc)
(via garychou)
