Quotable

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. And a few of the links below just take me back to something wrote and wanted to be able to find again.

• “…the slow swarm of spinning things.” – Count Zero by William Gibson
• Future of the Internet – Bruce Sterling
• The Work Manifesto – Hugh McLeod
• 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
• The wisdom of Hermon Goerring
• William Gibson on Bush’s purge of the CIA
• William Gibson sums up Creationism
• William Gibson quotes Martin Luther King
• Garrison Keillor on Republicans
• Why you don’t want to work for the NSA – From Good Will Hunting
• Radio Advertising – Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams
• 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”
• William Gibson on why George Bush and Osama bin Laden need each other
• 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 [video]
• When you die – Lawrence Block
• Sales Training (Part 1) – Glengarry Glen Ross
• Sales Training (Part 2) – 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