An economic downturn is a great time to start a business.

Whose standards? The Times’ standards, of course. They set the standard, don’t they?

Web entrepreneurs these days are getting the wrong idea that all that matters are users—not revenue.

I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.

(To a point)

While netbooks have a nifty form factor, they’re not where the mobile computing action is.

You reach for your purse or wallet and take out your last note. Something about it doesn’t feel quite right. It’s the wrong shape or the wrong colour and the design is odd too and the note just doesn’t seem right and… By now you’ve realised: oh shit! It’s the dreaded Scottish banknote!

(thanks, Peter)

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers.

Business has never been better for the fearless pilot who takes back millionaires’ expensive toys.

I have no bicycle, no car, no television I can understand, no media — and the days seem to stretch into eternities, and I can’t think of a single thing I lack.