10 by 10 room

“The easiest way to build a product that kicks ass is to start with someone else’s great idea (camcorders, for instance), and take stuff away.

— “Business Requirements are Bullshit” by Steve Yegge

““The DBacesslayer aka DBSlayer aka Släyer (as we like to call it when we’re feeling ironically heavy metal) is a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable.”

— DBSlayer description. (Open source software by the NYTimes.)

“The game will support four players in cooperative and competitive modes, and will include Zapper compatibility. It also supports feelings of guilt over the adversarial depiction of Native Americans, and rationalizations about such treatment being a staple of the Western genre.

— NintendoWiiFanboy on the new title, “Wild West Guns”

“If, while playing Geiger Counter, the characters come across a big red button that says “Don’t push, dangerous!” by all means, before the end of the game, make sure someone, preferably your own character, PUSHES THAT BUTTON!

— Push The Red Button

““O! a kiss / Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!”

— William Shakespeare, Tragedy of Coriolanus. Via The Exile Kiss, by George Alec Effinger

“Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman….pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.

— Threadless T-Shirt, “The Madness of Mission Six”

“Magic-user/thieves, fighter/clerics, and even the rare but potentially awe-inspiring fighter/magic-user/thief walked the land, like chimeras wrought by strange rites involving Player’s Handbooks, an overactive imagination, and a DNA splicer.

— Mike Mearls on Multiclassing in D&D. via chris. (This refers to the status quo, but read the article to see the approach ahead for D&D4. I’m optimistic.)

“Tim O’Reilly just said in his web2 keynote that the next stage after Web 2 is Ambient Information. I feel all warm inside.
— Nabeel Hyatt

“But in the end, none of that matters as much as the simple fact that software does not work the way we think, and until it does, it is not worth trying to perfect.

— Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code

“Or, if you like: you can only paint someone else’s house for so long before you start thinking that it might be nice to own your own house one day.

— Warren Ellis. (via Judd.)