Kelley Marsh

I make things better. I amuse myself in the meantime.

Quotes

  • Basically right, basically all of the time.

    A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessment of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it,…

  • Multitasking is just poor impulse control.

    “People don’t multitask because they’re good at it. They do it because they are more distracted. They have trouble inhibiting the impulse to do another activity.” from NPR.org on multi-tasking

  • Female User Interface Problem

    It’s like male geeks don’t know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it’s a user interface problem.  Not their fault. They’ll just wait for the next version to come out – something more “user friendly.” Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

  • Type-A Personality Disease Transmission Vectors

    Ethan says Type-A personalities have a whole subset of diseases that they, and only they, share, and the transmission vector for these diseases is the DOOR CLOSE button on elevators that only get pushed by impatient, Type-A people.  Ethan pushes these buttons with his elbow, now.  I’m starting to worry  about all of us. Microserfs,…