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A reader lives a thousand lives. The man who never reads lives only one.
— From the latest George RR Martin book, A Dance with Dragons, which I haven’t read yet, but will. (quoted in this also-worth-a-read article about playing video games)
15% of your users aren’t any good” and “10% of the population is mentally ill, you should do the opposite of what they suggest”.
— And how! (a quote from Bruce Sterling on being a slave to consumer research, via Influx Insights)
Dave Revsine offers this explanation for his excessive quoting. The entire table nods in agreement, although nobody can explain what they mean by it! (Now, that’s humor.) Revsine gives it a try, but at the first sign of trouble says, “You know, it’s like in the movie ‘City Slickers,’ when Billy Crystal’s character says he and his dad had nothing to talk about until they talked about baseball.” In other words, he is relying on a movie scene to explain himself. Point taken.
— Was looking for any kind of explanation for the pervasiveness of movie quoting among guys. Though several years old and not quantitative or scientific, I still thought this summary raised most of the right points. (via ESPN)
