And yet, the White House is ignoring what that license says in claiming that the photograph "may not be manipulated in any way." That's clearly untrue under the law and a form of copyfraud, in that they are overclaiming rights.
—Mike Masnick, "President Obama Is Not Impressed With Your Right To Modify His Photos," TechDirt, November 20, 2012

Negative criticism is particularly exciting, not only because of schadenfreude, but because once limitations are identified, we glimpse how to transcend them. Learning the shortcomings of today's neuronovel, we catch sight of the psychological novel of the future: a novel expressive of the problems we have now, including the encroachment of cognitive science into the concept of the self. When this novel appears, it will be because some people wrote neuronovels and books like "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and others identified the ways in which these works captivated us but failed to describe human existence.
—Elif Batuman, "From the Critical Impulse, the Growth of Literature," The New York Times, December 31, 2010

"Not every woman is currently in pursuit of a white-picket fence lifestyle, relationship of permanence, children, mortgage and scheduled date nights," says Noel Biderman, founder and CEO of AshleyMadison.com. "Many women are seeking adventure, and on a service like ours encountering older sophisticated men with the same 'no strings attached' mentality that creates the perfect match. Also it is very evident that this is not just a female thing, there are an increasing number of single men on AshleyMadison.com connecting with married women...we refer to them as 'MISTEResses'."
—"Dubious website names Los Angeles top most mistress city in Nation," Guardian Express, November 3, 2012

Learning to grow your own vegetables and set aside seed to plant next year, to raise chickens, bake bread and make jam, to medicate yourself with aloe vera, knit a sweater, run a diesel engine on recycled cooking oil, collect rain- or well-water, make your log cabin energy self-sufficient — to most of us these are innocent, even heart-warming, activities. To "preppers" these aren't pastimes; they are skills needed for the dark days ahead.
—Denis Duclos, "Bullets, beans and Band-Aids: A growing subculture of 'preppers' is getting ready for the end times," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 25, 2012

As a proponent of combinatorial creativity and remix as a tool of innovation, I am always fascinated by how famous creators think about inspiration, influence, and the origin of ideas, recognizing their combinatorial nature — and how bystander critics often dismiss these creative transmutations with terms as derisive as "recreativity."
—Maria Popova, "Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck," Brain Pickings, October 10, 2012

So long planking, and horsemaning—those trends are child's play compared to the new craze: rooftopping. Essentially, you get to a roof, go to the edge, look down, and snap a photo.
—Jen Carlson, "Vertigo-Inducing Trend: Rooftopping," Gothamist, August 12, 2011

Some days I just wish more people like Nietzsche were around. At least then the Church would have a worthy adversary, rather than the "faitheists" that now abound.
—Dan Paetkau, "Have your say," Winnipeg Free Press, March 25, 2011

We've known for years that word-of-mouth marketing has been partially co-opted by word-of-post, but the power of that lesson continues to impress when words like Grey (as in Fifty Shades) cease to instantly invoke Goose, sky or sweaters.
—Michael Humphrey, "Learning From 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' Avon Books And Facebook Tap Social Romance Market," Forbes, October 16, 2012

He is a developmental psychologist specialising in autism. His quiz was designed to detect autism and my score probably suggests I am "spectrumy" — to use a non-technical term — rather than a psycho.
—Nicholas Blincoe, "Zero Degrees of Empathy by Simon Baron-Cohen: review," The Telegraph, April 25, 2011

Simon Best, IAM chief executive, said: "SMIDSY moments are happening far too often, and very few people are prepared to take responsibility for their part in them. It's always someone else's fault. All road users need to be more aware of who they are sharing the road with, and the risks they present.
—Chris Knapman, "Drivers reminded to look out for vulnerable road users," The Telegraph, April 17, 2012

I agree with most everything he says in the column because, besides the last paragraph, his column is a antidote to digital dualism—the idea that online and offline worlds are somehow separate entities, one "virtual" and the other "real." But his column brings back digital dualism at the end—and does a disservice, in my opinion, to the rest of his points.
—Zeynep Tufekci, "Breaking Bread, Breaking Digital Dualism," Technosociology, February 8, 2012

I guess Reddit's strong lolbertarian background is why they took so long to clamp down on child porn there?
—Jeff Attwood, "I guess Reddit's strong...," Twitter, October 12, 2012