Favorite Quotes

Behavioral Economics

Chris Fenwick — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:24:55 +0000

Behavioral Economics: The context, the medium, and the interface within which a decision is taken, may have a far greater affect on the decision we make than the long term consequences of a decision even when we KNOW those consequences.

- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Economics

Problems with communication

Chris Fenwick — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:38:32 +0000

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

It's a waste of time...

Chris Fenwick — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:18:50 +0000

[It's] like buying a really bitchin' DVD cabinet when your collection consists of only Avatar, Ghostbusters and the second season of "Emergency!"

Steve Miller

Disappointing you...

Chris Fenwick — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:19:51 +0000

"Disappointing you is like choking the Little Mermaid with a bicycle chain."

Jeff Winger - "Community" on NBC

Tyranny v. Liberty

Chris Fenwick — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:24:19 +0000

When the people fear the government there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

History Repeating?

Chris Fenwick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:46:31 +0000

"History never repeats itself but quite often it rhymes"

Bill Rolland
February 8, 2010

Be a Buccaneer...

Chris Fenwick — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:27:01 +0000

"I talked to coworkers who wanted to further their education, but they typically spoke in terms of getting a new piece of paper, such as a bachelor's degree, a masters, or a PhD. For them, education was about the doors they believed would open because of how they were labeled by institutions, not about making themselves truly better as thinkers. Buccaneers, on the other hand, don't take labels too seriously. A buccaneer studies in the hope of unlocking Great Secrets! Wonder! Mastery! A buccaneer lives for the excitement of deciphering the mysteries of human experience. A buccaneer wants status, too, but only if that status is justly earned and sustained through the quality of his work."

From - "Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar" by James Bach, a legend in the software-testing field.

Any Technology...

Chris Fenwick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:11:54 +0000

Any technology, suitably advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.

Motion Picturing...

Chris Fenwick — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:27:02 +0000

"Motion picturing is harrrd..."

Peter Dippery - Producer

A Sinking Ship

Chris Fenwick — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:11:35 +0000

"i feel like I'm polishing the bell on a sinking ship."

Jeff Dykhouse