Christopher Reynolds

"When people ask me, “How do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest..."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:18 -0400

“When people ask me, “How do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest successes?”, I usually tell them to look for the companies and services that are mocked and misunderstood. For some reason, that correlates highly with the biggest breakout successes.”

- http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/12/mocked-and-misunderstood.html

"Fortunately, as I’ve mentioned before, I have a strong feeling that I will die young without..."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:46:02 -0400

“Fortunately, as I’ve mentioned before, I have a strong feeling that I will die young without artifact. That I will make no lasting impression. This will be my avenue. So hold your horses, I just have a few more things to do in life and I’m sure I’ll be out of your hair.”

- https://gist.github.com/476370

"Success is failure after failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:54:22 -0500

“Success is failure after failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

- Winston Churchill

"It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:10:03 -0500

“It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see
and hear for oneself.”

- Mary Travers

Costa Concordia coastguard rejects 'hero' label

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:09:03 -0500

Cruise liner hits rocks off coast of Italy. Captain is the first to bail. Italian coast guard officer orders him to get back on the boat and help the rescue efforts:

“Captain,” said De Falco at one point. “This is an order. Now I am in command. You have declared the abandoning of a ship and are going to co-ordinate the rescue from the bridge,” adding, “What do you want to do? Go home?”

"Run when you can. Walk when you must. Crawl if you have to. Just never give up ."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:41:07 -0500

“Run when you can. Walk when you must. Crawl if you have to. Just never give up .”

- Dean Karnazes

"Luck is the dividend of hard work."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:14:54 -0500

“Luck is the dividend of hard work.”

- Anon

"It’s funny, everyone asks me, ‘Do you regret what you did?’ And the answer is, fuck no. I mean, I..."

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:47:16 -0500

“It’s funny, everyone asks me, ‘Do you regret what you did?’ And the answer is, fuck no. I mean, I think of myself as an entrepreneur, and I went about some of that the wrong way. But I’ve done more at twenty-two than most people do their whole lives. I partied my ass off. There were so many women. I smoked so much weed. Anyone says they regret that, they’re full of shit. They’re saying that to please other people. I don’t care. I had a blast.”

- Ben Scozzaro (Accomplice to “Kid Cannabis”)

"No matter how good or bad you feel, it won’t last."

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:41:57 -0500

“No matter how good or bad you feel, it won’t last.”

- Selene Yeager

"I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:16:20 -0500

“I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.”

- Goethe (or Rainer Maria Rilke)

"Life is not about finding yourself. It is about creating yourself."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:30:06 -0500

“Life is not about finding yourself. It is about creating yourself.”

- Anonymous

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:25:40 -0500

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:24:00 -0500

“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

-Steve Jobs

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:41:14 -0500

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”

- Vernon Howard

"Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes..."

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:41:14 -0500

“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”

- Mona Simpson (Eulogizing her brother, Steve Jobs)

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:03:12 -0500

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

-Henry Rollins

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:17:14 -0500

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”

- Anon

I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:06:00 -0500

I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we’ve lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it’s all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it’s not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than “die,” “pass away,” the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday…

And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have heven heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money toh ave put in to make sure we’re remembered, these’ll last what — a hundred years? two hundred? — and they’ll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I’m cremated the trees that are nourished by my windbown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and before maybe three or four generations it will be like I never existed, to only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1863, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we’re all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to imagine, in fact, probably that’s why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are.

-Pale King, David Foster Wallace

When I was a kid I asked my grandmother why her religion fasted for ramadan. She replied that it was...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:40:26 -0500

When I was a kid I asked my grandmother why her religion fasted for ramadan. She replied that it was so we would be forced to live simply and therefore be able to identify with the less fortunate. I inquired as to why we did not just give to the less fortunate and bring them up to our level.

She answered that to just give to the needy would not suffice because it not only dismisses their hardships, but also creates a world where there is a defined line between those who have and those who do not. We fast in order to foster compassion, not erase pity.

-Matt Blank

"Its untrue that you do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate...."

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:33:00 -0400

“Its untrue that you do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The reality is that you grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.”

- David McRaney