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The Strokes on drugs

Nick Valensi: “If half the band does drugs and the other half of the band doesn’t do drugs, you will break up in the next six months.”
Julian Casablancas: “So we all do drugs.”

Oscar Wilde

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” – Oscar Wilde

Michael Dell

“In 1997, Apple was weeks from going bankrupt. A competitor, Michael Dell, suggested that the best thing the company could do would be to liquidate and distribute its remaining cash to shareholders. 15 years later, Apple is now the most valuable company in the world.” – Business Insider

“Permabull”

The title is sufficient.

Instagram acquisition

“Thirty million people use it to pass time in the bathroom.” NY Mag on Instagram acquisition.

Social Intelligence

Massive amount of data + A.I. = This and this.

Designers needed

Silicon Valley is desperate for designers.

Geschiedenis

“Ik heb niets tegen geschiedenis, ik houd gewoon meer van toekomst.”

Intelligent advertising

Heineken does it. Only Dutch folks will get this.

Life motto

This is it.

Bloomberg Terminal

Combines three of my major passions to one.

CSS Deck

Stunningly awesome website, why haven’t I discovered this earlier?

Kowtow

“I didn’t want to kowtow to the system.” – Sean Parker

Karen Lamb

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

Mark Zuckerberg’s desk

It looks a lot like mine, even though I don’t really have a desk.

NOS

“Die oude NOS presentator. ‘Oude’ als in ‘oude man’ én ‘voormalig’.”

Google History

I use Google quite often. These are my stats for the last seven days. Did you know I’m utterly insane?

The “hacker” word

“To the popular press, “hacker” means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer.” – Paul Graham

Expensive products

It’s not a luxury if you use it often.

Startup quotes

These are pretty good.

Hitchens

Believe me, it’s torture.” – Christopher Hitchens

Bobby McFerrin

Pentatonic Scale

Businesscard

This one is pretty neat.

Molecules and tiny particles

Scale your way into awesomeness.

Beer opener

This is my new beer opener.

Sapiosexual

I have to admit, I’m a sapiosxual.

Stanley Kubrick on the possibility of extra-terrestial life

You should check it out.

Forward Slashes

Why do urls need two forward slashes (http://)?
“The forward slashes are there solely for aesthetic purposes”

Jobs on Super Bowl

“I don’t know a single person who watches the Super Bowl.” – Steve Jobs

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