quotes

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon on Facebook turning 5 

"Five years after their founding, the revenue streams of Yahoo, Amazon, Google, and eBay were firmly established."
Owen Thomas
http://valleywag.gawker.com/5145975/facebook-at-5-what-the-future-holds?skyline=true&s=x

While quite an accomplishment, don't let anyone tell you that Facebook is the next Google

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Martin Luther King (Letter From a Birmingham Jail) 

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;' who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a 'more convenient season.'"
via: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5149276/map-of-anti+gay-donors-created-by-big-chicken#c10614995


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arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon 

Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

bottom of a forwarded email message

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Jeff Atwood on blogging 

I often give aspiring bloggers this key piece of advice: if you're starting a blog, don't expect anyone to read it for six months. If you do, I can guarantee you will be sorely disappointed. However, if you can stick to a posting schedule and produce one or two quality posts every week for an entire calendar year... then, and only then, can you expect to see a trickle of readership.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001207.html

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Mark Slouka on opinions 

"I don’t believe I have the right to an opinion about something I know nothing about—constitutional law, for example, or sailing — a notion that puts me sadly out of step with a growing majority of my countrymen, many of whom may be unable to tell you anything at all about Islam, say, or socialism, or climate change, except that they hate it, are against it, don’t believe in it. Worse still (or more amusing, depending on the day) are those who can tell you, and then offer up a stew of New Age blather, right-wing rant, and bloggers’ speculation that’s so divorced from actual, demonstrable fact, that’s so not true, as the kids would say, that the mind goes numb with wonder. 'Way I see it is,' a man in the Tulsa Motel 6 swimming pool told me last summer, 'if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for us'"

another good thought in the same rant, on what the problem is:
"We know because we feel, as if truth were a matter of personal taste, or something to be divined in the human heart, like love"

via: http://simplisticart.blogspot.com/2009/02/reading.html
via: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/02/the-right-to-an.html

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Mark Slouka on Jesus 

We care about Jesus, though we’re a bit vague on his teachings. 
http://simplisticart.blogspot.com/2009/02/reading.html

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Charles Platt on trying to go against the popular consensus of how things are 

"a book defending a company that has been demonized does not have a large potential audience, and the writer tends to be dismissed as either hopelessly naive or bribed by corporate America...If you haven’t heard of Adam Shepard, this illustrates my point. His remarkable book Scratch Beginnings, now being promoted through www.scratchbeginnings.com, describes how he went through an experience far more gruelling than my brief flirtation with low-paying work. He placed himself in a homeless shelter with $25 in his pocket, found a job as a day laborer, then worked for a moving company, and after 10 months had a pickup truck, an apartment, and $2,500 in savings. His conclusion: People can still make it in the United States if they are willing to live carefully on a budget and work hard."

via: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/01/life-at-walmart.html
via: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/02/in-defense-of-w.html

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Stewart Chase 

for those who believe, no proof is necessary
for those who don't believe, no proof is possible

via Criminal Minds 4x14 (end quote)

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Song from Scrubs 8x8 ~14min 

I like you
and like can lead to like like
and like like can lead to love
sure as the stars above I'd really like to kiss you

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon 

"The great use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it"
http://twitter.com/shiralazar/status/1215970569

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Ted Dziuba on Obama 

the Santa Claus of Washington D.C. does by chance make the inauguration season dreams of a few good little boys and girls come true
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/open_source_letter_to_obama/page2.html

also good in the same article:
"If you take two parts pathological aversion to risk, mix it together with one part apathy and a jigger of laziness, what you get is the government workforce culture."

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Swedish Minister On Bailing out Saab 

"voters picked me because they wanted nursery schools, police and nurses, and not to buy loss-making car factories"

hahaha freakin awesome.

http://twitter.com/BreakingNewsOn/statuses/1222546856

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon 

money cant buy happiness, but poverty cant buy anything

arrow 8 March 2009 by Jaymon Eric L. Haney 

"Tonight, when you're comfortably in your bed, in those last few quiet moments before you go to sleep, give thanks to whatever diety you speak to that we have a group of men who readily go in the worst of harm's way, and are prepared to lay down their lives, if that's what it takes, so that you can live a life without fear." ("Inside Delta Force" 2003, pg 403)

arrow 9 March 2009 by Jaymon 

"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." -Peter Lynch

arrow 10 March 2009 by Jaymon 

"To be truly rich, regardless of his fortune or lack of it, a man must live by his own values. If those values are not personally meaningful, then no amount of money gained can hide the emptiness of life without them." — John Paul Getty, How to Be Rich (1961)
via: http://artofmanliness.com/2009/03/08/great-lessons-from-great-men/

“Good will is one of the few really important assets of life. A determined man can win almost anything that he goes after, but unless, in his getting, he gains good will he has not profited much.” — Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922)
via: http://artofmanliness.com/2009/03/08/great-lessons-from-great-men/

arrow 23 March 2009 by Jaymon The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. - Winston Churchill. 

via: http://twitter.com/fredwilson/statuses/1376602635

arrow 25 March 2009 by Jaymon Mother Teresa 

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world
via: http://twitter.com/rainnwilson/statuses/1390918609

arrow 25 March 2009 by Jaymon Tycho (one of the Penny arcade guys) 

If a man claims to be Jesus Christ, you can bet I'll check the wrists.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/3/25/ via: http://twitter.com/_spr_/statuses/1391221271

arrow 26 March 2009 by Jaymon on overcoming obstacles 

"excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do." -Shaquille O'Neal

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes" -Buddha

"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard." -Bruce Lee

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did" -Newt Gingrich

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more" -Edward H. Harriman

"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirtsleeves." -Garth Henrichs

all of these are from the jan/feb 2009 issue of Men's health

arrow 27 March 2009 by Jaymon Desiderata 

Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is: many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. 

attribution:
Often attributed as "Found in Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore: Dated 1692."

Actually, Desiderata was written in 1927 by an obscure Indiana lawyer and poet named Max Ehrmann. Sources include: The Washington Post, November 27, 1977.

via: http://www.mendosa.com/fluke.html

arrow 27 March 2009 by Jaymon 

"Surely you can't take that many rides on the bridal express and still expect to end up in a mythical land called Happily Ever After?" -Elizabeth Renzetti
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090327.wrenzetti0328/BNStory/Front

arrow 28 March 2009 by Jaymon Sarah Lacy 

What was surprising to me, is that people who have a huge tolerance for risk on the front end– literally creating something out of nothing—become risk-adverse when they’ve proven that it’s actually worth something.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/28/risk-aversion-and-the-perils-of-selling-too-early-israeli-startups-part-ii/

arrow 6 April 2009 by Jaymon Robert Igor (Disney CEO) 

A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure.
via: http://www.davosnewbies.com/2009/04/06/wouldnt-it-be-nice/

arrow 10 April 2009 by Jaymon James Thurber 

"All human beings should try to learn before they die: what they are running from, and to, and why."
via: http://twitter.com/timoreilly/statuses/1493682137

arrow 10 April 2009 by Jaymon Peter Drucker on not predicting the future 

"Futurists always measure their batting average by counting how many things they have predicted that have come true. They never count how many important things come true that they did not predict."
via: http://beta.friendfeed.com/nivi/e1428cd3/peter-drucker-on-not-predicting-future

arrow 11 April 2009 by Jaymon Rebecca Thorman 

"Innovators don't join the conversation-they interrupt it." 

http://modite.com/blog/2009/03/30/stop-writing-about-social-media-to-be-a-successful-blogger/

my favorite quote though is: "Chris Brogan isn’t all that original, Guy Kawasaki can be annoying, and ProBlogger writes about the same thing every day. There. I said it."

via: http://twitter.com/timoreilly/statuses/1498457468

arrow 18 April 2009 by Jaymon Bjarne Stroustrup 

"There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more"

"I think we should look for elegance in the applications built, rather than in the languages themselves"

and my favorite: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

all via: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#really-say-that

arrow 19 April 2009 by Jaymon John Batelle on google 

"Google built its brand on making the internet small again"
via: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=136093

arrow 19 April 2009 by Jaymon Theodore Roosevelt 

"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."

arrow 19 April 2009 by Jaymon George Tsiolis 

Folks, if a million people use your services but refuse to give you a dollar, you don’t have a business - you have a hobby.



via: http://blog.agoracom.com/2009/01/11/2-web-20-companies-that-each-make-more-money-than-youtube-twitter-and-facebook-combined/

arrow 23 April 2009 by Jaymon abmw 

"Risk Taker, Care Taker, Surgeon, Undertaker = the four types of Executives."

http://gawker.com/5224591/jason-calacanis-nominates-himself-myspaces-captain-obvious?t=12311280#viewcomments

arrow 27 April 2009 by Jaymon Alex on on the frequent Obama press conferences 

On another note are these monthly prime time press conferences going to become a regular feature of the Obama Presidency? I wouldn’t mind that if they actually achieved anything of any real importance or significance but the last one just felt a lot like he was reminding everyone that it wasn’t a dream and yes you did elect a black guy President.

via: http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/04/27/fox-rejects-obamas-request-for-broadcast-airtime-on-april-29/17479#comment-78356

arrow 28 April 2009 by Jaymon Mark C. Taylor on Graduate studies 

"Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand"

I also like:
"research and publication become more and more about less and less. Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems. A colleague recently boasted to me that his best student was doing his dissertation on how the medieval theologian Duns Scotus used citations."
via: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all via: http://twitter.com/venturehacks/statuses/1633036738

arrow 29 April 2009 by Jaymon Dick Durbin 

"And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place"

via: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html

arrow 29 April 2009 by Jaymon Erich Fromm 

"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."
via: http://twitter.com/timoreilly/statuses/1653702373

arrow 30 April 2009 by Jaymon 

"The only difference between being visionary and being stubborn is if you're right"
via: http://twitter.com/mrinaldesai/statuses/1662552108

arrow 30 April 2009 by Jaymon Malcom Gladwell in Outliers book 

"hard work is what successful people do"

arrow 2 May 2009 by Jaymon badasscat comment on Occam's razor and conspiracies 

"Occam's Razor apparently doesn't apply to conspiracy theorists, who all naturally assume that the right answer is always the most complex and unlikely, not the simplest and likeliest."
via: http://gawker.com/5235908/what-is-your-favorite-page-of-the-911-coloring-book?skyline=true&s=i#c12512714

arrow 4 May 2009 by Jaymon Eric Haney on Government 

"I came to realize that there was no such thing as a monolithic government always striving to do the right thing, even if it did sometimes make mistakes. I understood all too well that a government was made up of many people with different -- and sometimes venal -- agendas. And sometimes those kinds of people hold high office and wield enormous power, simply to further their own ends."

(Inside Delta Force p321)

arrow 4 May 2009 by Jaymon 

"When Pippi taught the children how to play cards -- poker, blackjack, gin -- he would stack the deck and clean them out of their allowance money, then at the end e would give them a glorious streak of luck so that they could fall aasleep flushed with victory. [...] Later Pippi would demonstrate how he had cheated them. Nalene was angry, she felt he was playing with their lives as he played with hers. Pippi explained it was part of their education. She said it was not education but corruption. He said he wanted to prepare them for the reality of life, she wanted to prepare them for the beauty of life" (The Last Don pg 68)

I really like that last part: "he wanted to prepare them for the reality of life, she wanted to prepare them for the beauty of life"

arrow 4 May 2009 by Jaymon On the artist (fictional) Ernest Vail 

"When he wrote about class, he claimed that people with a great deal of money had to be cruel and defensive, and that the poor ought to become criminals since they had to fight laws written by the rich to protect their money. He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution. About religion, he wrote that it should be prescribed like medication" (The Last Don pg 108)

I wrote the full quote, but the only part I really liked was: "He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution."

arrow 4 May 2009 by Jaymon Skippy Deere's famous list 

"although she remained on Deere's Christmas card list, she was on his famous 'Life is too short list' list, signifying he would not return her phone calls" (The Last Don pg 155)

I totally want a list like that

arrow 4 May 2009 by Jaymon 

"I'm just a fuckup. Eccentrics do odd things to distract people from what they do or are. They are ashamed. That's why movie people are so eccentric" (The Last Don pg 329)

arrow 5 May 2009 by Jaymon The Economist 

"In Locomotion by land [...] our progress has been most stupendous-- surpassing all previous steps since the creation of the human race. [...] In the days of Adam the average speed of travel, if Adam ever did such things, was four miles an hour; in the year 1828, it was still only ten miles, and sensible and scientific men were ready to affirm and eager to prove that this rate could never be materially exceeded; --in 1850 it is habitually forty miles an hour, and seventy for those who like it."
(via "The Great Train Robbery" pg XIV)

arrow 8 May 2009 by Jaymon Abraham Lincoln 

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
via: http://twitter.com/timoreilly/statuses/1741304244

arrow 8 May 2009 by Jaymon 

When I'm speaking in public, I stand behind a lectern and I use a particular set of skills. The more I hone those skills, the better I get at public speaking. But if I'm talking with people at a cookout and I use those same skills in that setting, I'm just an asshole

via: http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/why-comments-suck-ideas-on-unsucking-them.html

arrow 11 May 2009 by Jaymon From Blackadder season 4 

“If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.”

via: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/11/playboy-losing-its-pants-intends-to-save-print-business-by-increasing-prices/
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