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“The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […]
On the face of it, the term “web platform� seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments. Flash was a platform. Android is a platform. iOS is a platform. But the web is not a platform. The whole point of the web is that it is cross‐platform.”
― Resilient Web Design
On the face of it, the term “web platform� seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments. Flash was a platform. Android is a platform. iOS is a platform. But the web is not a platform. The whole point of the web is that it is cross‐platform.”
― Resilient Web Design
“I couldn’t have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs.”
― The Anarchist Handbook
― The Anarchist Handbook

“The thing that is destroying the world. The thing you were talking about. Actual selflessness.'
'The ideal which they say does not exist?'
'They're wrong. It does exist-though not in the way they imagine. It's what I couldn't understand about people for a long time. They have no self. They live within others. They live second-hand. Look at Peter Keating.”
― The Fountainhead
'The ideal which they say does not exist?'
'They're wrong. It does exist-though not in the way they imagine. It's what I couldn't understand about people for a long time. They have no self. They live within others. They live second-hand. Look at Peter Keating.”
― The Fountainhead

“It would be nice to believe that we humans were designed to love everyone unconditionally. Nice, but rather unlikely from an evolutionary perspective. Parochial love—love within groups—amplified by similarity, a sense of shared fate, and the suppression of free riders, may be the most we can accomplish.”
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“market-driven pressures plus an engineering-driven company yield ever-increasing features, complexity, and confusion. But even companies that do intend to search for human needs are thwarted by the severe challenges of the product development process, in particular, the challenges of insufficient time and insufficient money.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things

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