January 2010
Dear Apple Store employees,
When you say “let me look at it”, please note that there is a definite distinction between “let me look at it so I can help you” and “let me look at it so I can check if you’re a moron”. I promise it’s not the latter, so you’re wasting my time if you don’t mean the former.
Thank you for taking 20 minutes of my time to verify my claim...
“He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the...”
– Some guy named John Foster (prob’ly this one) doesn’t think I’m crazy.
“The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning,...”
– Philip Doddridge, who overestimates my baseline waking hour by at least two hours. So apparently I’m missing out on twenty additional years.
“… The rules do matter - it’s just that obeying them doesn’t....”
– David Mitchell, on innovation in language (article via Tara Hunt)
