“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” PeopleKnowsWantDoeSaidIdeasHandsWould BeJobsWaitingLinesRecordsPlansThousandInnovationIndependentAddMy FavoriteUglyStoresLabelsFeaturesCrucialPresentationSaying NoSaying YesRecord LabelsItunes Author:Derek Sivers
“The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.” IfsThinkingUseBodyGovernmentLinesFeminismBirthAbsolutesIndependentIndependenceBottomYour BodyBottom LineBirth ControlBedrock Author:Erica Jong
“With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.” IfsHappensTogetherFilmCan DoLinesIndependentSchedulesIndependent Film Author:Jennifer Westfeldt
“No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindCountryStatesTurnsInterestLinesUnitedUnited StatesPlansDrawsIndependentIntentionArguingOperationsRelyAlliesAttackingForeign Countries Author:Edward Snowden
“The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.” WritingUsedLanguageLinesNumbersPeriodsIndependentCodeFixedProgrammers Author:Fernando J. Corbato
“Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.” ThinkingStillsLinesPartyRecordsMinesRepublicanEmptyIndependentDemocratDespiteVotingConsistentComplimentSenatorsMccain Author:Sarah Vowell
“Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).” IfsHumansDoeInterestLinesClassTreeIndependentSeriesWoodsCirclesTransformedSectionsCurvesRulingFragmentsStraight LinesSpiralsHuman KnowledgeQuagmire Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.” ThinkingWellsWarStatesGovernmentPassionNamesLinesPartyTalkingIssuesColdPoliticianRepublicanResearchLogicIndependentInstitutionsBillsDemocratVariousAcceptedDespiteWelfareSenateCold WarSeventiesTanksDrankReservedPartisansLegislatorsNineteenWelfare StateFilibuster Author:George Packer
“They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.” TryingLinesPowerfulActingPositionBearsLimitsIndependentWesternCornersPartnersHypocrisyUkraineCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council can sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.” StatesUseMightLawUsedForceLinesAttentionSecurityKeysGayDrawsAspectIndependentMethodInternationalJustifyAggressionSyriaSovereignCouncilSanctionsGay RightsPretextInternational LawSecurity CouncilUse Of Force Author:Vladimir Putin
“The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.” SelfIndividualLinesAcceptingRolesThousandBehaviorRespectIndependentIndividualitySelf RespectRescueDispositionWreckage Author:Jeannette Rankin
“Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.” CountryFilmLinesPositionBrotherFineIndependentIndependent FilmFine LinesWarner Brothers Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews
“Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.” ThinkingWayHardWholeMightOpportunityCommunityLinesIssuesStyleDutyHard WorkTenPaperPrejudiceTwentiesIntelligentIndependentIntenseCommandEducatedCourageousArticlesConventionalMediocreRise AbovePolishRevisionPartisanshipWeighing Author:Joseph Pulitzer