Morrisons Garage Ltd

circa 1930

war

"the timeline of war and conflict across the globe"

http://www.conflicthistory.com

fuddle

"I went to brush something off my cheek and it was the floor."

world's most expensive lager

The most expensive lager in the the world is Carlsberg's Jacobsen Vintage No. 1

holiday

"Change in aggravation is like a holiday."

Earthquake Zones and Nuclear Power Plants

Source: here.

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Twitter

20,000 Twitter accounts generate +50% of all tweets read, out of 200 million registered accounts.

Trusting Instinct

"An artist starts at the bottom of the circle with no knowledge and moves through an education until he or she reaches the top of the circle, at which point they know everything there is to know about their craft and their field and their medium, at which point they become a craftsperson. It's when you move beyond that and and start to move back down forgetting everything you've learned that you come back to a place where you're trusting instinct and your unconscious bliss."
- Michael Stipe

Hitch is Unwell

corporate value system

"Just in case anyone is in danger of forgetting this, the secret to remaining ahead of the pack is not 'Get Fat.' It's 'Stay Hungry.' Creativity doesn't happen without a few constraints. That's why wise use of resources has been a business tradition at Microsoft since the early days, when, to be perfectly honest, there wasn't much choice in the matter. But it remains our practice today, for the simple reason that when you start leaning on your wealth instead of living by your wits, you're in real danger of losing your edge."
- From a 2000 Microsoft 25th Anniversary publication, which also contains the phrase "Excess destroys success."

In 2005, Steve Jobs extolled the virtues of staying hungry here.

recoil

"There are some fights that ain't worth fighting even if you win, but there are some fights worth fighting even if you lose."
- Indiana adage

Emperor Xi Zong

"Happiness from happiness is not true happiness. Only happiness from suffering is true happiness."
- Ming Dynasty

apps

Profile of an application developer here.

adage

Frank Gehry's Stata Center, M.I.T.

"If you don't teach your children to be alone, they will only be lonely."
- Professor Sherry Turkle, M.I.T.

face

A Roman cavalry-officer's helmet mask. Source: Gotlandsnytt

Ogilvy on Advertising

creativity

"I have never made the slightest effort to compose anything original."
- Mozart

soup

"I didn't feel for Warhol ... His work reflected a culture I wanted to avoid. I hated the soup and felt little for the can. I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."
- Patti Smith, Just Kids, p.69

bike commercial

white and red

Presynaptic activity (in white) of a single neuron (in red). Source here.

aphorism

"Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
- Buddhist dictum

plagiarism checker

http://plagiarisma.net/

you can't take it back it's out there

a nervous 23 year old Steve Jobs preps for his first tv appearance

"You need to tell me where the restroom is too because I'm deathly ill and ready to throw up at any moment"

uncontacted tribes

Transcendentalist

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

arrows

An Efe pygmy prepares poison arrows for hunting monkeys. Source here.

vision

" ... to be an artist was to see what others could not."
- Patti Smith, Just Kids, p. 11

motivation

"History shows people just as prepared to fight for honour and recognition as they are for less abstract concepts like food or territory."
- Attributed to Francis Fukuyama