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"Quand je bois des bières je suis sociable."

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:55:31 +0200

“Quand je bois des bières je suis sociable.”

- Bastien

New song from Coldplay that you can download for free from their...

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:41:03 +0200

New song from Coldplay that you can download for free from their website: Coldplay.com

"On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter”..."

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:28:49 +0200

“On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter” — and much to my amazement — Mr. Jobs called me. “This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” After that rather arresting opening, he went on to say that he would give me some details about his recent health problems, but only if I would agree to keep them off the record. I tried to argue him out of it, but he said he wouldn’t talk if I insisted on an on-the-record conversation. So I agreed.”

- Talking Business - Apple’s Culture of Secrecy - NYTimes.com

"Every time I think of you I always catch my breath And I’m still standing here And..."

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:46:53 +0200

“Every time I think of you
I always catch my breath
And I’m still standing here
And you’re miles away
And I’m wondering why you left”

- John Waite

Some of my Flickr pictures in a tourist guide: Montreal &...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:55:18 +0200

Some of my Flickr pictures in a tourist guide: Montreal & Quebec City Guide (via mathoov)

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:56:28 +0200

““To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.””

- Anatole France

"I’ve got two ticket to Paradise… if you pack your bags, we’ll leave tonight?"

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:55:54 +0200

“I’ve got two ticket to Paradise… if you pack your bags, we’ll leave tonight?”

"Looking back at those early days, if you could give that 21-year-old you just starting Microsoft..."

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:51:20 +0200

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Looking back at those early days, if you could give that 21-year-old you just starting Microsoft some advice, what would you—is there something that you know now that you didn’t then that would have been useful?

Bill Gates: Not really. I mean, you can say, hey, you’re going to be successful, so don’t work so hard or something like that, but then it might completely erase the whole thing. Or learn that you’re going to need a mix of skills, not just engineering skills. But at first the fact that we were just over-the-top engineering-centric wasn’t so stupid.
Today, as you get a large company, having a push that says, hey, we’ve got to stay somewhat engineering-centric, even as you have all these different skill sets, you know, I could have told myself that guys’ IQ, it’s not as fungible to learn other things. If they show IQ in domain A, you know, I always thought, well, then just use them in domain B.
And that worked a bit. You even see another company in the industry doing this bit where you’ll hire somebody who’s a good scientist, and you say they can be a programmer, and you only—you interview them on sort of their—the depth of knowledge about the field they’ve spent in, and assume they can come to the other field. Some of that is true. But when you go into, say, management-type things or dealing with people-type things, then the number of people whose IQ is fungible is surprisingly low. The thing that I would drool over is to walk over to Microsoft Research and see that here are people spending full time on vision, full time on speech, full time on machine learning, full time on software proof, where at early Microsoft we couldn’t give back to the intellectual base.
I mean, that’s the greatest surprise to me of all in my whole business career is that you find people who are so good at one thing, and where the principles and models and approaches in that and in the other area are actually very similar, very similar, and yet they’re very poor at the one and just beyond brilliant at the other.”

"But when i walk into Scout Labs this young startup on top of the 13 floor of a gorgeous building on..."

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:16:28 +0200

“But when i walk into Scout Labs this young startup on top of the 13 floor of a gorgeous building on Fremont, the one thing that strikes me apart from the fact that the CEO is a woman and practically younger than me is the SPEED. The speed in which they talk and work and work the computer. The speed in which they zip around the interface. The speed in which their brains work, they way they map mental models to different applications online. i mean i am used to deep, intellectual, profound discussions made in classrooms, but these guys are machines. They are talking and moving a mile a minute. They are blazing. It’s exhilarating watching them. It’s fun to watch them with their ultra-thin lap tops, email and ichating and iMing and sending things to printers all at the same time. It’s fascinating watching how their minds work.”

- Mindspace: Consulting Up in the City

I Love Magnetic Poetry!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:07:11 +0200

I Love Magnetic Poetry!

"It’s OK to be an asshole, as long as you’re passionate about it."

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:56 +0200

““It’s OK to be an asshole, as long as you’re passionate about it.””

- Steve Jobs

"So what goes through the minds of executives who don’t sweat the small stuff? Don’t they..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:15:45 +0100

“So what goes through the minds of executives who don’t sweat the small stuff? Don’t they realize that critics and bloggers will find and publicize the limitations? Don’t they realize that customers nowadays can compare notes, can warn each other away? And in a crowded field like digital frames, why on earth can’t they see that the only way to differentiate is to be better than the other guys?”

- Designing What’s Right for Consumers - New York Times - David Pogue

cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:50:43 +0100

cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0: Finally, I’ll be able to replace Lightbox on my blog by this new Javascript code! Really cool!

New Toys (via mathoov)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:31:11 +0100

New Toys (via mathoov)

I was looking for a solution like this one for months, and I...

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:08:37 +0100

I was looking for a solution like this one for months, and I found this article of Merlin Mann on 43folders. I changed some conditions and here is my Smart Playlist that contains ONLY songs (no podcast, no videos, no PDF, just pure MUSIC).

"It was great meeting Mathieu last night and it’s true that we love you French Powncers! I’ve..."

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:20:50 +0100

“It was great meeting Mathieu last night and it’s true that we love you French Powncers! I’ve mentioned in several meetings lately how there’s this whole French community on Pownce sharing stuff. It was a really exciting moment to stumble through Little Girl’s profile and discover all of you guys. Seriously, I immediately yelled at Kevin and Leah and showed them what was going on. Really fantastic!”

- — Daniel Burka (Designer de Digg et co-fondateur de Pownce)

Adweek Magazine In Print - The New Brand Ambassadors

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:10:23 +0100

Adweek Magazine In Print - The New Brand Ambassadors: Are you a “new” brand ambassador?

New York Times Interviews of Steve Jobs after the Macworld 2008 Keynote: The Passion of Steve Jobs

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:04:48 +0100

New York Times Interviews of Steve Jobs after the Macworld 2008 Keynote: The Passion of Steve Jobs: “The Amazon Kindle is not going anywhere […] I’m skeptical about Google Android”

Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 10 signs you're a product fanatic

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:53:14 +0100

Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 10 signs you're a product fanatic: I’m definitely one… and you?

36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:24:51 +0100

36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!