Paul Graham:

Several people have told me they like the iPad because it lets them bring the Internet into situations where a laptop would be too conspicuous.

In other words, it's a hip flask.

Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson:

From the crisp scent of vomit-soaked pizza boxes baking in the sunrise on East Sound Pier, to the pink-and-orange sunsets softly shimmering behind the West Railyard prostitute encampments, I love every inch of this town.

I took my first body shot right around the time I spoke my first word, and that word was "body shot."

And yet I fear that our children might not grow up in the same Margaritaville we've been able to enjoy.

David Foster Wallace:

There is no such thing as not worshipping.

Everybody worships.

The only choice we get is what to worship.

Tom Friedman:

We're entering an era where being in politics is going to be more than anything else about taking things away from people.

It's going to be very, very interesting.

Caterina Fake:

Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on.

Vannevar Bush:

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Atul Gawande:

Let us look for the positive deviants.

Mason, Waters, Wright, and Gilmour:

And you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

The Acceleration of Addictiveness