wiki/quotes Quotes I like in append-to-bottom order. https://twitter.com/tateterrific/status/309450553191186432 A man does not acquire a full skill-set to be told, "Take Care" be careful" by amateurs. Raw action solves everything. Caution breeds fear. Paul Vixie wrote http://cat-v.org/ The Internet is not for sissies. Keyan Kousha wrote https://gitern.com/ > ldv/github/is/managerware Edward Tufte wrote https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000hB It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write about all of physics in 1800 pages, using only 2 levels of hierarchical headings: chapters and A-level heads in the text. It also uses the methodology of sentences which then cumulate sequentially into paragraphs, rather than the grunts of bullet points. Undergraduate Caltech physics is very complicated material, but it didn't require an elaborate hierarchy to organize. Matthew Butterick wrote https://tinyletter.com/mbutterick/letters/please-go-away-tim-berners-lee Mr. Berners-Lee, after 30 years, we thank you for the things you got right; we forgive you for the things you got wrong. But if the web is really “for everyone”, then it’s long outgrown your mother-knows-best myopia. Authorship is unclear for this one https://duckduckgo.com/?t=canonical&q=%22When+you+don%27t+create+things%2C+you+become+defined+by+your+tastes+rather+than+ability.+Your+tastes+only+narrow+%26+exclude+people.+So+create.%22&atb=v230-1&ia=web When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create. This whole thread https://twitter.com/mcclure110/status/1274404812717768706 and this blog post pretty much based on it https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html Neal Stephenson wrote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. https://tilde.zone/@solderpunk/104666124248702868 @rek :) That website obesity article was a big inspiration behind a lot of stuff I've done, most directly my "serve no evil" webserver Shizaru (https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/shizaru/). From the README: "The website obesity crisis is combatted with strict file size limits, to ensure that your website does not end up larger than the major works of Russian literature. Besides being limited to 32 KiB in size, HTML pages are limited to 3 images and HTML tags cannot be nested more than 10 levels deep." https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/roni-horn-on-politics-in-art/ I will tell you a story I love. There was a hermit discovered in the middle of Southern Russia. This woman was the only survivor of her inheritance. Her family was one of many groups of families that were trying to escape Stalinism and religious intolerance and they wound up in this remote location. This woman didn’t even know there was a second World War. Could you imagine being in a place where you had no information? She’s illiterate, and now she’s alone. All of her family is gone. She was the only one living in this area. Her group had all passed away. This journalist asked her, “What do you see as the difference between now and then? Is there a big difference?” And she said, “Well, back then, we had no salt.” And I just thought… You dream about that. I don’t know what’s political now. You know, what is political? Trump? No. That’s political, right there: “You had no salt.”