Robi's Ringolog

"We hack because we want to do better. We hack because we want to demonstrate the desire for greater possibilities. We hack because we're sick and tired of being caught in a net designed for other people. We hack because it's fun."

— Why We Hack: The Benefits of Disobedience

"If you could guarantee your dictator is fully aligned with you there is a good chance that the system will be far more efficient than a democracy. History has taught us though that 99.9% of the time this isn’t the case. The Open Web gives us an escape valve. It has its own problems and complexities (just as democracy), but that is all critically worth it."

— Dion Almaer

/via @bookwormat

The Exact Average UIST Paper

"Somebody is going to take this stew of new things [and put them] together in a neat combination. Somebody will take some HTML5, and geolocation, and mobile applications, hook into Facebook perhaps, and they're going to do something unexpected."

— Brad Neuberg

/via @mgroh