The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
— Albert Einstein
We can build something for the future, but only the future can decide if they want it.
— Drew DeVault, Engineered Perspectives N3
Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.
— Joan Westenberg, Mastodon
I contend that text-based websites should not exceed in size the major works of Russian literature.
— Maciej Cegłowski
So, really, if you’re a fascist, a TERF, etc., and you’re looking at this going “hey, this is for me… freeze peach”, it really isn’t. Quite frankly, you’re what’s wrong with the world. Being free and open source, we can’t stop you from using it and self-hosting it but know that we hope for a world where, one day, you and your toxic, inhumane ideologies will be nothing but a distant memory from the embarrassing adolescence of humanity.
— Aral Balkan place/app README
When building a new product, there's a rule of thumb that it must be at least ten times better than the existing products or people can't be bothered to switch.
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile
— Hippocrates
Theater thrives on risk. Cinema eliminates it.
— Joan Westenberg, Meta Bombed. Apple Chickened Out.