Jerry Brito
Impulsively redesigning since 1999.
Jerry Brito is a policy wonk and web developer in Washington, DC.
the quote category
Toonces without a cause was funny the first four times it came through my RSS feed of your BlogSpot. The fifth time it’s starting to get old.
— Dan R. Sorry folks. The Tumblr queue f’d up my post. Should be fixed now.
WSJ: Why were you interested [in taking on the challenge of buying and reviving Newsweek]?
Sidney Harman: How could you not be? I’m a prodigious reader and I love to talk. The challenge at a time like this in the world of journalism…man, that’s inescapable. That’s better than a good-looking woman. Well, maybe not.
Even if what Google is now proposing is good policy, the backroom nature of the process sends an unmistakable message to Google’s erstwhile allies: we’re with you only as long as it’s convenient for us.
Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers.
— Fred Brooks interviewed in this month’s Wired.
Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
If you want to buy a horse and you go to the horse store, and see one that looks really cool because it has flames coming out, fight temptation. Don’t buy that one. It is on fire and it will die shortly.
Hey media. Stephen Hawking is CLEARLY just making up increasingly ridiculous stuff to screw with you at this point.
Not every President goes for the multipen signature, however. President George W. Bush preferred signing bills with only one pen and then offering several unused “gift” pens as souvenirs.
— TIME (Always the pragmatist.)
[N]obody saw Jar Jar Binks coming.
It’s bullshit.
— Steve Jobs on Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don’t have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.
— Isaac Asimov
Though Mr. Arrington is a lawyer, he had not written or signed contracts with Fusion Garage to establish joint intellectual property.
— NY Times
Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not comment on our purpose or plan.
— Apple spokesman Steve Dowling on its acquisition of streaming music company Lala.
The day after the day after Thanksgiving should just be called “Poop Saturday.”
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
— Albert Einstein
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