Stewart Butterfield Quotes

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That's something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.

Stewart Butterfield

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WorkManagementNewProductMinds

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Jesse Jackson

DepressionLazyUnemployedWhites

I've been working hard my whole life.

Jessica Sanchez

LifeWorking HardHardWorkingBeen

New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.

John Cameron Mitchell

New YorkPeopleCityYouUniqueNew

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

Jenny Lawson

FamilyParentsSmallTexasGoYoung

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

Ann Patchett

NatureI AmPeopleThinkThoughtful

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

Jeff Greenfield

MyselfCollegeThoughtBelieving

If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.

John Perry Barlow

GreatPotentialAmericaYearYou

From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.

Robert Zemeckis

MoneyAttentionCinemaTroubleKnow

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Michael Shannon

MeYouSayBecomeInsideSee

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

WorkYourselfJoyOthersMarkOnly

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Dennis Prager

NatureGoodSufferingHuman Nature

I am the youngest of six. There's the smart one and the pretty one, and I am the loud one.

Ashley McBryde

SmartI AmPrettySixLoudYoungest

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