May 2012
14 posts
“I’m a translator, and one of my languages is science.”
– Doug Ellison, from Coolest jobs in tech – Ars Technica
As the article illustrates, another of his languages is imagery. He’s very good at translating between them, too.
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...”
– CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
“The whole Gemini program had test objectives that, in essence, are all being...”
– Jeff Greason, CEO of XCOR Aerospace, talking about tomorrow’s launch of the Falcon 9 commercial rocket to the International Space Station
from Putting the SpaceX (test) launch into perspective
“Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you...”
– Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ‘83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement (via pevz)
Good Idea: Unglue.it →
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Good Idea: Unglue.it →
Unglue.it is a a place for individuals and institutions to join together to give their favorite ebooks to the world. We work with rights holders to decide on fair compensation for releasing a free, legal edition of their already-published books, under Creative Commons licensing. Then everyone pledges toward that sum. When the threshold is reached (and not before), we collect the pledged funds...
“This romanticization of the past has real-world consequences because it breeds a...”
– How nostalgia for the Apollo program doesn’t help. in Slate
tldr: The public wasn’t any more in favor of NASA (and its budget) in the 1960s than it is now. People remember it that way because they imagine consensus around things that ended up working.
This point can’t be made too...
with a frighteningly small number of exceptions
okbjgm (Javi Grillo-Marxuach):
most hollywood tentpole/blockbuster films display the same narrative sins for which we fanboys vilified george lucas a decade and a half ago. he showed us the future of mainstream filmmaking twice in thirty years and we never stopped buying what he was selling.
I’d love to hear more specifically what Javi means by this, but it rings true for me. Most...
“Single best criterion for choosing a co-founder: someone you want to impress,...”
– Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal 