#mm

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #composed #experience

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#assimilated #cannot #communicated #contagion #crowd

When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#around #broke #comment #enjoy #go

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#adoption #advertising #boom #broadband #during

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#communication #deconstruction #direct #extra #i

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#comments #does #eight #everything #full-time

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#applications #carry #e-commerce #get #information

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #cigarettes #driving #immoral #other

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#father #friends #her #i #miss

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #i can #myself #need #paper