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Interviews: A Conversation with David Foster... →
DFW: “I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. Since an ineluctable part of being a human self is suffering, part of what we humans...
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In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech... →
“Girls notice,” said Matt Graves, 37, a communications director at Twitter, who prefers orange and blue stripes.
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How I Develop Things and Why →
“Before I start writing a single line of code, I write the README and fill it with usage examples. I pretend that the module I want to build is already written and available, and I write some code with it.” -Kenneth Reitz
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25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore →
“21. A surprising number of people will think you’ve read every book in the store and will keep pulling out volumes and asking you what this one is about. These are the people who leave without buying a book, so it’s time to have some fun. Make up plots.” -jlsathre
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Look, Ma, No Hands!  →
“The demo that really rocked my world, though, was something much less glamorous: reading. Imagine a Web page or Word document on the screen before you — and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how fast you are going, so it keeps your place centered on the screen, scrolling automatically as...
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Democracy
“10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. ‘That’s not an abuse of power, that’s democracy. [Dodd] had best get used to it.’ ”  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd’s claim that SOPA blackout was “an abuse of power.”
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