How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose:

• When you’re stuck with a mode problem, user-centered design principles dictate that the mode should be made obvious to the user.

• While there are some individual differences in the ways we manage cognitive load, one thing is clear: none of us does this as well as we think we do.

• Safe organizations relentlessly promote a “stop the line” culture, in which every employee knows that she must speak up — not only when she’s sure that something is wrong, but also when she’s not sure it’s right.

• Dealing with the problem of too many alerts proved harder, partly because it flies in the face of intuition.

Daniel Levitin:

What matters today, in the Internet era, is not whether you know a particular fact but whether you know where to look it up, and then, how to verify that the answer is reasonable.

Also, chocolate.

Rachel Posner:

All Cassie Lockhart wants to be is someplace far away. Someplace where nobody’ll ever find her. She likes to go to the movie theater. It doesn’t matter what’s showing, just… she likes the smell of the popcorn. She wants a dog. A black lab. And a queen-size bed. Lots of blankets to curl up in. She doesn’t want much. She just wants to be invisible.

Rust Cohle:

Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

For our days on earth are a shadow.

/u/magicscoobysnack:

“How are you?” is often the most difficult question for me. It’s so exhausting.

/u/south_west_request:

If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. If you can’t crawl…find someone to carry you.

Lester Freamon:

A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.

Inspector Bucket:

Sometimes you have to do something and be seen to do something. And sometimes, just doing something for the sake of doing something, will make something else happen.

It’s all temporary. Not a choice, just a fact.

Securelist:

Perhaps the most powerful tool in the Equation group’s arsenal is a mysterious module known only by a cryptic name: “nls_933w.dll”. It allows them to reprogram the hard drive firmware of over a dozen different hard drive brands, including Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, Maxtor and IBM. This is an astonishing technical accomplishment and is testament to the group’s abilities.

Bruce Schneier:

The fascinating part of this story is that a computer was monitoring the Twitter feed and understood the obscure references, alerted a person who figured out who wrote them, researched what flight he was on, and sent an FBI team to the Syracuse airport within a couple of hours. There’s some serious surveillance going on.

Tim Cook, regarding Google Glass, in Jonathan Ive’s profile by Ian Parker:

They were intrusive, instead of pushing technology to the background, as we’ve always believed.

Jeremy Keith:

If I install an app on my phone, the first thing I do is switch off all notifications. That saves battery life and sanity.

Paul Ford:

Can you take a website that we use to reach hundreds of thousands of people in a given month and turn it into a website that can reach tens of millions of people or more? Or rather, “can you turn our tour bus into an airplane for a week or two?” The answer, as with everything in technology, is: It depends.

moot:

But the biggest hurdle it’s had to overcome is myself. As 4chan’s sole administrator, decision maker, and keeper of most of its institutional knowledge, I’ve come to represent an uncomfortably large single point of failure.

Eric Vespe:

I can just tell that if I was in a crisis situation I’d be more worried about the danger of making a wrong decision that I’d likely freeze and make no decision at all. I’d like to think that I’d be super smart and sharp and confident, but my biggest fear is that I’d just be paralyzed with indecision.

Abraham Lincoln:

I must make my decision, Bob must make his, you yours. And bear what we must. Hold and carry what we must. What I carry within me, you must allow me to do it. Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary, you alone may lighten the burden. Or render it intolerable. As you choose.

Bunny Colvin:

Look, I just did what I did. It felt right. I’m fine with that.

Aulia Masna:

Sensible people would avoid being so offensive, but Charlie Hebdo was anything but sensible, having drawn criticisms from the French government in many occasions as well as the US government.

THINK. Is it true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

Ron Swanson:

I don’t like loud noises and people making a fuss. And I especially don’t like people celebrating because they know a piece of private information about me. Plus the whole thing is a scam: birthdays were invented by Hallmark to sell cards.