Life is grand Life is grand and you can't deny it. Here are some of the moments I tumble across.

“When Google buys Netflix in the next 18 months — and it will — it will merge it with YouTube and it will be fait accompli. Google will buy Kickstarter eventually and have a soup-to-nuts solution for artists. The crowd funds you, Youtube promotes you and Netflix monetizes you.”

“For discovery, Twitter and Stellar. No RSS…stopped doing that a few months ago and I feel like it dramatically improved my success rate in finding interesting things (although the addition of Stellar has helped with that too). For reading long stuff, Instapaper.”

“of the 50 cities in the world with the fastest Internet service, 38 were in Japan,”

“So what age are you? And do you live in the past, present or future?”

“I am convinced that there will come a time when the web will take over and no one will be able to tell the difference between a web app and a native one but we’re not there yet. Today and for a few years, native apps will still provide a better experience.”

“A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.”

“I will make one comment about these kinds of arguments which seems to me to somehow have eluded everyone. When people make these probabilistic equations, like the Drake Equation, which you’re familiar with — they introduce variables for the frequency of earth-like planets, for the evolution of life on those planets, and so on. The question remains as to how often, after life evolves, you’ll have intelligent life capable of making technology. What people haven’t seemed to notice is that on earth, of all the billions of species that have evolved, only one has developed intelligence to the level of producing technology. Which means that kind of intelligence is really not very useful. It’s not actually, in the general case, of much evolutionary value. We tend to think, because we love to think of ourselves, human beings, as the top of the evolutionary ladder, that the intelligence we have, that makes us human beings, is the thing that all of evolution is striving toward. But what we know is that that’s not true. Obviously it doesn’t matter that much if you’re a beetle, that you be really smart. If it were, evolution would have produced much more intelligent beetles. We have no empirical data to suggest that there’s a high probability that evolution on another planet would lead to technological intelligence. There is just too much we don’t know.”

“If you think that mathematical objects are not in time, and mathematical objects don’t change, you could easily fall into the idea that the world itself doesn’t change, because your representations of it don’t.”

“Yes, exactly! It seems to me that it’s wrong to reduce your life to one or two choices. I took the wrong path – and that’s that. It doesn’t work like that… I don’t believe in “fatal errors”. And even if I make some mistakes, they’re my mistakes, and I’ll take responsibility for them.”

“Having preferences means having weaknesses.”

“may sound silly to speak of file-sharing in terms of persecution, but when you think of the case of Thomas Drake, or of Bradley Manning, it seems a little less silly.”