Some Quotes

A couple of random english and german strings that resonated at some point in my life for one reason or the other with my brain.

Drinking water is the cheapest, easiest and healthiest way to feel like you're better than people.

"Kate und William haben gefickt."

Warum ich keine Headlines schreibe.

http://
t.tt/WQ3bwp
- ehrlichkeit

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

focus on stepwise progress for the smallest viable audience

The power of community and the trap of opt-out

There’s a balance, neither extreme works. It’s up to us to think hard about
where the (unstable, hard to find) balance lies.

Complaining is often a socially acceptable distraction from doing the actual work we set out to do.

sterben: Irgendwann bist du der Nächste auf der Welt, der stirbt.

Man braucht eine Vision um eine Messlatte definieren zu können.

Someone who works on web search once told me that they already have an algorithm that guarantees the maximum click-through rate for any web search: just return a page full of porn links. (Someone else said you can reverse this to make a porn detector: any link which has a high click-through rate, regardless of which query it's answering, is probably porn.)

A random subset of strings from a personal collection of strings mostly already out there.
Some are thought-provoking. Some are funny.

34 yrs

Drinking water is the cheapest, easiest and healthiest way to feel like you're better than people.

26 yrs

"Kate und William haben gefickt."

Warum ich keine Headlines schreibe.

http://
t.tt/WQ3bwp
- ehrlichkeit

32 yrs

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

31 yrs

focus on stepwise progress for the smallest viable audience

33 yrs

The power of community and the trap of opt-out

There’s a balance, neither extreme works. It’s up to us to think hard about
where the (unstable, hard to find) balance lies.

33 yrs

Complaining is often a socially acceptable distraction from doing the actual work we set out to do.

32 yrs

sterben: Irgendwann bist du der Nächste auf der Welt, der stirbt.

32 yrs

Man braucht eine Vision um eine Messlatte definieren zu können.

31 yrs

Someone who works on web search once told me that they already have an algorithm that guarantees the maximum click-through rate for any web search: just return a page full of porn links. (Someone else said you can reverse this to make a porn detector: any link which has a high click-through rate, regardless of which query it's answering, is probably porn.)