{"id":5927,"date":"2011-11-03T15:17:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T09:17:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-03T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T09:17:46","slug":"sourced-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/sourced-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourced Quotes, 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m curious about everything. Even subjects that don&#8217;t interest me. &#8212; Alex Trebek, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/what-ive-learned\/ESQ0403-APR_WIL\">What I&#8217;ve Learned, Esquire, March 2003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve gotten so used to emergent technologies that we get anxious if we haven\u2019t had one in a while. &#8212; William Gibson,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6089\/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson\"> The Art of Fiction, Paris Review<\/a>, No. 211. <\/p>\n<p>The cynic has a shorter to-do list than the optimist. &#8212; Anne Herbert, <a href=\"http:\/\/peaceandloveandnoticingthedetails.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/cynic-has-shorter-to-do-list-than.html\">Peace and Love, September 22, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t having to apologize every now and then you aren&#8217;t being interesting enough. &#8212; Robert Scoble. My Apology to Tim Cook, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111091089527727420853\/posts\/AACwFd7V4Vo\">Google+, Octber 6, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without a big picture we are very small people. \u2013 Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack, <a href=\"http:\/\/new-universe.org\/Excerpts.html\">The New Universe and the Human Future<\/a>, Introduction p. xii, 2011. <\/p>\n<p>A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. &#8212; Charles Fort, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Cx5-mKfUoeMC&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=lo!+charles+fort&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=osywTo6TLqbmiALHzNzqDw&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=book-thumbnail&#038;resnum=1&#038;ved=0CDkQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&#038;q=steam%20engine&#038;f=false\">Lo!, 1931, p. 34<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network. &#8212; Steve Yegge, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112678702228711889851\/posts\/eVeouesvaVX\">Google+, Oct 12, 2011 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Few people are suited to running a startup, and it&#8217;s very hard to predict beforehand which are, so lots of people starting startups who shouldn&#8217;t is probably the optimal state of affairs. As long as you&#8217;re at a point in your life when you can bear the risk of failure, the best way to find out if you&#8217;re suited to running a startup is to try it. &#8212; Paul Graham, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hubs.html\">Why Startup Hubs Work<\/a>, October 2011<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/\/classic_occupy_wall_street_protest_signs_640_09.jpg\" alt=\"Classic occupy wall street protest signs 640 09\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m curious about everything. Even subjects that don&#8217;t interest me. &#8212; Alex Trebek, What I&#8217;ve Learned, Esquire, March 2003. We\u2019ve gotten so used to emergent technologies that we get anxious if we haven\u2019t had one in a while. &#8212; William &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/sourced-quotes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}