I purchased Rework over the weekend and can’t put my Kindle down. Below I pulled a few of the chapter titles and quotes that struck a cord.

If you’re in a fast-paced, growing company, you’ll love this book. Those in the tech sector will find the book quite appealing due to the background of the authors. The work is the product of the brains behind the business, and the incredible blog at 37signals.

“I bought a doughnut, and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don’t need a receipt for the doughnut. I’ll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut… end of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can’t imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: “Don’t even act like I didn’t get that doughnut! I got the doc-u-men-tation right here… oh, wait it’s at home… in the file… under ‘D’… for doughnut.”

- Mitch Hedberg

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

- Chuck Norris

“24.5 million Americans play some sort of soccer, and that’s the second highest number in the world behind China.”

- Andrew Swift, of Foreign Policy magazine

“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

- Ronald Reagan

“For the Christian, ‘truth’ is not primarily about logical propositions or statements, but about an encounter with the living God himself, and the consequent struggle to try and put into words that greater reality”

- Alister McGrath

“Why did he run when I was going to throw him out?”

- Ichiro Suzuki

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

- Milton Berle

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

- Mark Twain

…from last night’s Super Bowl, regarding the Saints.

“You ever wait for something for so long that waiting for it becomes the something?” he said. “It’s like waiting 43 years to hear somebody say ‘I love you’ back.

“And they do.”

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot

“Religion exists, in part, precisely because humans aren’t at home amid these cruel rhythms. We stand half inside the natural world and half outside it. We’re beasts with self-consciousness, predators with ethics, mortal creatures who yearn for immortality.”

– Ross Douthat, OP ED NY TIMES Dec 21, 2009

A great quote from the Google Nexus One press conference.

[thanks to Gizmodo for catching this slide]

Love everything about these clips from Gawker.

“Now that I can finally understand you, I am less impressed with what you have to say.”

- Don Draper to Kurt

“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”

- Gen. George Patton

“The most important lessons lay not in what I needed to learn, but in what I first needed to unlearn.”

- Jim Collins

That’s life: One minute, you’re on top of the world; next minute, some secretary’s running you over with a lawn mower.

- Joan Holloway

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

- A.L. Mencken

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

- Mark Twain.