Cerberus’s stated reason in December for not putting in more money was that this would violate their fiduciary duty to their limited partners. This looks to me like an admission that putting more money into Chrysler is a bad investment, but if someone knows more about this argument, let me know.
— Baseline Scenario
over time, i’ve become convinced that any solution that involves the “Accept:” header is wrong, and any question whose answer involves the “Accept:” header is the wrong question.
— Mark Pilgrim
Yes, the effects of fiscal policy are uncertain; yes, running up large debts is risky; but doing nothing is even riskier
— Paul Krugman
Villa-Lobos Prelude No.1
George Washington - the new Chuck Norris? - CollegeHumor video
Obama has a lot to live up to.
Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. They will burble about technology issues. They are fucking lying. They might go off further about business models. They are fucking stupid. Make fun of these people, and their shitty little Cloud Cities running on low-grade cooking fat and dreams. They will die and they will take your stuff into the hole. Don’t let them.
— Jason Scott
When you’re actually proud of your work, rather than just telling yourself you’re proud of it, you sleep well at night.
— John Gruber
There are workloads for which MyISAM is faster. But we should stop saying MyISAM is faster. This is repeated too often with neither qualification nor quantification.
— High Availability MySQL
Interestingly, there are no runs on banks. The value of the withdrawals is so meaningless that the banks will be able to meet depositor demands with ease.
— Letter from Zimbabwe - Shanta Devarajan