Stephen Fry

Great Leap Years is an excellent podcast. Less technology oriented but also a good listen by him: 7 Deadly Sins.[1] [1] https://www.stephenfry.com/7deadlysins/

Thanks for the link. Man, I love listening to him speak. For anyone who didn't know, he has a really nice podcast called "Great Leap Years"(2018)[1] you should listen to. Its a podcast about how technology has changed our lives over the years. [1]https://www.stephenfry.com/greatleapyears/

There is a great podcast by Stephen Fry, he suggests it's because we are able to store knowledge and share it without needing to be in the same place, i.e writing and other forms of documenting culture, that humans have shot so much further in terms of shared intelligence. http://www.stephenfry.com/greatleapyears/

Great institution, though a bit expensive. I heard about it through a blog post by Stephen Fry, who is a big fan: http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/12/londonlibrary/ I did not join, but did go on one of their public tours, which was really interesting: http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/public-tours-events

Well, in this case the publishing medium is presumably owned/controlled by him since it's posted on http://www.stephenfry.com While he may not have the knowledge to modify the site himself, he could tell the people he's paying to remove the ad. It's most likely the case that he wants the ad.

This kind of article is mostly clickbait at this point. There's a lot of "interest" in these kinds of topics and they attract a lot of attention on -funny enough- the same social media platforms. I believe the main problem with those social media apps is not an issue of time, but of productivity and determination/will-power. Think of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc... These are not social networks exactly, but all contain elements from it. I've deleted my Facebook account about 6 years ago now and slowly got off all the other ones after. Now I only use RSS to follow websites I care about. At first I felt like I'm out of a lot of loops and circles of friends, but I later realized that it was all useless anyway, people who I care about and who cared about me still text or call me. I didn't need to know about every little random thing that happens in the world unless I specifically choose to know about it. It later felt really liberating. People were taking about who marked who safe and I just managed with a text message. People talk endlessly about how good/bad social media is and I'm totally out of the entire conversation. Still to this day I meet people who find it very weird that I'm not on Facebook, or if they are as well not on Facebook then probably because they have Reddit/Tiktok/etc. I can't stress this enough, but I really felt like my productivity was fading away about 6 years ago, after quitting I find the energy to work on the most…

There are lots of reasons why Silicon Valley became what it is today, but it seems that by far it is because William Shockley [0] was born there - "Shockley is the man who brought silicon to Silicon Valley." Shockley was working at Bell Labs over in New Jersey on solid state electronics, and was jointly awarded the Noble Prize for the discovery of the transistor effect. When he moved back home, angry at how the invention of the transistor had been handled at Bell Labs, he took a number of researchers with him. Together they were one of the first startups in Stanford's new "Stanford Industrial Park", and the first to use silicon. Some of those researchers later started Fairchild Semiconductor, from which came many companies like Intel and AMD. If you haven't heard of it yet, Stephen Fry has an excellent (if too brief!) podcast that goes through this and the history of other big advances in technology in great detail, called Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley [1] http://www.stephenfry.com/greatleapyears/

I'm torn between wanting to close this tab immediately before I get irrationally furious at people who probably mean well, and wanting to battle this out with every comment like yours in the small hope that it changes at least one person's attitude towards depression. > The parent comment is suggesting that people with depression need to take control of their own life by recognizing what makes them unhappy in order to overcome it. Your comment is suggesting that depression -- clinical depression, not, "boo hoo things are tough right now and I'm unhappy" -- is the depressed person's own fault and all they need to do is change everything in their life until they're happy. It's really wrong. When you learn to levitate by taking control of your own life and recognizing what makes you happy, then you will have something to teach people who suffer from depression. Until then, I beg that you do more reading on the subject, and I'm happy to offer some of the material that I've found most useful. It's somewhat unfortunate that Allie Brosh's most famous work ended up being about her depression, but: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression… -- when she published this, people struggling with depression suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said, "YES, yes, this is it exactly!" It's a great and easy primer into the depressed mindset. She wrote a part two: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html Then watch this video:…

Stephen Fry is one source of the story. > I like to claim that I bought the second Macintosh computer ever sold in Europe in that January, 30 years ago. My friend and hero Douglas Adams was in the queue ahead of me. For all I know someone somewhere had bought one ten minutes earlier, but these were the first two that the only shop selling them in London had in stock on the 24th January 1984, so I’m sticking to my story. 1. https://www.stephenfry.com/2014/01/mac-at-30/

a pleasure, this guy is smart and witty :) http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/

What the hell is Twitter turning into? A broadcast Messenger chat? It seems like to me that Twitter is increasingly promoting the mindlessness often found on sites like Reddit; In my opinion the attempt to increase the number of GIFs in an attempt to resume growth to millenials is misguided, and will lower the quality of Tweets overall (not that it was high to begin with), and will likely further alienate parts of its existing userbase, as we saw yesterday.[1] [1] http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/

He's leaving because of the pc culture. http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/15/peedinthepool/

Just for those curious about the Fry quote, I think it might originate from his blog, himself quoting Alastair Campbell. At the very least there's a nice reference to it, and I'm happily crawling along the links enjoying it. http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/06/24/only-the-lonely/ http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/2013/06/10/response-to-stephen-fr…

That's strange considered he published a semi-famous essay taking grammar and language pedants to task. http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/ How does your link make Fry out to be as dumb as a bag of hammers? You may dislike him personally (shrug) but that does not make the man stupid. I would also agree that the Register are being needlessly cruel by inviting readers to comb though his statements and then popularise his mistakes. I very much doubt any person on earth could withstand that kind of scrutiny, not even politicians who have armies of people to protect them from making quantative and qualitative mistakes. Fry speaks as eccentric British comedians from the upper middle class speak. I guess non-natives just don't get it.

Here's the original http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-a…

Here is the link to Stephen Fry's letter @ http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-a… Much rather give give him the page views.

The quote is from this article http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/12/11/gee-one-bold-storm-coming-up/

Stephen Fry has an interesting anecdote about receiving compliments here: http://www.stephenfry.com/2007/09/27/let-fame/single-page/

While the quotes are nice, at the same time ignoring curse words entirely is basically cutting off a significant portion of expression. While I'm not saying you should litter all of your sentences with them, they do get the point across much better than not. A (long) view on the subject by Stephen Fry that basically points out we shouldn't lament language change and other ways of expressing ourselves. http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/

Single page version: http://www.stephenfry.com/2012/04/03/four-and-half-years-on/single-pag… Has it really been such a short time? It feels more like a decade.

From: http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/12/22/series-2-episode-3-language/

I often find myself in agreement with Fry's seemingly incompatible interests. Like his appreciation for the Free Software movement[1] as well as Apple's achievements[2]. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/fry/ [2]: http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/

He has the same article on his blog: http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2009/06/19/iphone-therefore-i-am---step… but it also includes a short comparison with one of Nokia's new(?) phones, the N97

> “If DAUs go down or stay flat, the stock could go under $10,” one former employee said. “I feel like if that happens most people at the company will just quit. I know several friends already looking to get out.” That might be optimistic on the part of the employee. Snap chat is in a bad position in that they don't have their Donald Trump like twitter to keep in in vogue, and they don't have their advertising cash cow like Google/FB to make it profitable. Heck due to their screwy share structure they don't even have the passive investment to prop up the stock that almost all other public companies do. And due to the lack of voting they also remove the option of a forced takeover like GoPro does to give merger arb funds a reason to hold the stock. To paraphrase Stephen Fry Snap is the company that peed in the pool for all other investors wrt to ownership control :( http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/