Paul Ford famous quotes

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.
-- Paul Ford

#Numbers #Snacks #Feelings

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.
-- Paul Ford

#Holiday #Years #Games

Reader-users read differently than their forebears-they read Twitter to find links to long articles that will interest them; they switch between phone calls and the Kindle app. And yes, they watch video, play games, and listen to music. But language still knits it all together, and words have more work to do than they ever did before.
-- Paul Ford

#Phones #Games #Play

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.
-- Paul Ford

#Bitcoin #Commodity

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.
-- Paul Ford

#Remember #Primates #Politeness

... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.
-- Paul Ford

#Book #People #Magic

Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.
-- Paul Ford

#Sorry #Writing #Mean

Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.
-- Paul Ford

#Fun #Sleep #Light

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.