Sloley Drifting Quotes & Sayings

I say to you that suffering is not holding onto you, you are holding onto suffering. — Osho

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. — Ray Kurzweil

And why not do the easiest possible thing? Because isn't that always the best thing? — Lev Grossman

I was just a kid. I think I stole a candy bar. I remember feeling so terrible. It was the worst shock. I was probably 7. That's my least favorite feeling: guilt. — Amy Sedaris

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child. — H.P. Lovecraft

Usability, fundamentally, is a matter of bringing a bit of human rights into the world of computer-human interaction. It's a way to let our ideals shine through in our software, no matter how mundane the software is. You may think that you're stuck in a boring, drab IT department making mind-numbing inventory software that only five lonely people will ever use. But you have daily opportunities to show respect for humanity even with the most mundane software. — Joel Spolsky

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. — George Mikes