This page –probably more than any other– captures why I started blogging back in 2002. I wanted a place to write down lines from movies and books. I was forever searching through my library or scraps of paper. These are just the ones I remembered to post. The others… are here someplace. You’ll see a link (tag) below some posts called Quotable and, when I remember, I add them to this page as well. A few of the links below just take me back to something wrote and wanted to be able to find again.
- The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
- Existence is like a sound recording (Biocentrism by Robert Lanza
- Wisdom Teeth (Cryptonomicon) by Neal Stephenson
- Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
- The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
- The Viral Me by Devin Friedman
- 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
- Kevin Kelly – assorted posts and quotes
- The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
- William Gibson – assorted posts and quotes
- You Know Nothing of My Work (Marshall McLuhan) by Douglas Coupland
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Random Walk by Lawrence Block
- State of the World: 2012 by Bruce Sterling
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Salon interview with William Gibson
- Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson
- Race Against the Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson
- The Intention Economy by Doc Searls
- Be As You Are by Sri Ramana Maharshi
- I Am That by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Consciousness by Christof Koch
- Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
- The God Argument by A. C. Grayling
- This Town by Mark Leibovich
- Jesus Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman
- The Gruen Transfer (Life, Inc.) by Douglas Rushkoff
- The Devil’s Code by John Sandford
- The Book by Alan Watts
- The Tao of Zen by Ray Grigg
- Spark by John Twelve Hawks
- Tigerman by Nick Harkway
- Alan Watts – assorted quotes
- Seth Godin – assorted quotes
- Interview with William Gibson in the Paris Review
- “Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.” – James Gleick, Chaos
- The Information – James Gleick
- What Technology Wants – Kevin Kelly
- “My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me” – William Gibson
- zero history – William Gibson
- A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
- Twitter is “an information network that helps people understand what’s going on in the world that they care about.” –Ev Williams
- “…the slow swarm of spinning things.” – Count Zero by William Gibson
- Future of the Internet – Bruce Sterling
- The Work Manifesto – Hugh McLeod
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – Seth Godin
- Brand as mythology – Seth Godin
- If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information. – Dave Winer
- How to start blogging – Dave Winer
- Making radio relevant again – Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
- His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman
- William Gibson quotes Martin Luther King
- Garrison Keillor on Republicans
- Why you don’t want to work for the NSA – From Good Will Hunting
- The Torrent – John D. MacDonald on life and death (Pale Gray for Guilt)
- Mel Karmazin – “Fucking with the magic”
- “Imagine that existence is like a sound recording.” – Biocentrism
- Ignore Everybody – And 39 Other Keys to Creativity
- Western concept of self – Bangkok Tattoo, by John Burdett
- “When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.” — Bruce Sterling
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- Anathem – Neal Stephenson
- The Religion War – Scott Adams
- Future of Voting – Scott Adams
- How to deal with the elderly – Dwight Schrute
- Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse – Victor Gischler
- “You don’t look sick. Just tired and bitter.” – As Good As It Gets
- Deadwood – Television’s most painful 2 1/2 minutes
- Ferris Bueller – “You’re note dying, you just can’t think of anything good to do.”
- Friday Night Lights – “Forever’s about to happen in a few minutes”
- Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky
- JPod by Douglas Copland
- One Memory – “…choose one memory, the one you remember and cherish most.”
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
- Three Days of the Conder – Why we are really in Iraq
- When you die – Lawrence Block
- Glengarry Glen Ross – Always be closing scene
- Boiler Room
- It ain’t white boy day, is it? – True Romance
- Two types of journalists – Carl Hiaasen’s new novel, Basket Case
- Enlightenment
- Can I bum one of those?
- Masthead images
- Cash cows
- Assorted quotes from Dave Winer