Friday Five: Five Unrelated Quotes I Saw on Twitter Lately

“We see a future where knowledge and information are made freely available for all through philanthropy and public spaces designed for the civic good.” — Andrew Carnegie, standing in stark contrast to the value-extracting, paywalled garden-building tech billionaires of today

“I don't think we have ever understood what software truly is fundamentally, or what it means, and now as it becomes accessible to more and more people, and they start applying software in ways we would have thought to apply it before, we will start understand what it is.” — Vin Verma, re-imagining the medium is the message from first principles

“Parenting turns you into a morning person the same way being chased by a bear turns you into a runner.” — @calidaysay, nailing why I’ve become both a pre-6am riser and a daily morning hiker. It’s about survival, baby!

“I like to deal with people where I feel a one-page contract will do the job. If I have to have 50 pages in there to protect me against the guy I’m dealing with, I’ll always wonder whether I needed 51.” — Warren Buffett, who I imagine did not have many one-page contracts as Berkshire Hathaway grew into a multinational conglomerate holding company

“I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.” — Wes Montgomery, likely my favorite jazz guitarist. We’ve been listening to a lot of Boss Guitar at dinnertime.