i must’ve seen a thousand faces

<p>sxsw interactive is over now. it was awesome and exhausting, like these things always are. just quickly, here are a handful of quotes i heard during the past week.</p>

<blockquote>
  slow and steady wins the race.<br>
  crashing and dead equals dead.<br>
  <a href="http://bookis.wordpress.com/">-bookis</a>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  i like to make new mistakes, not repeat the mistakes my peers have made.<br>
  -<a href="http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=bio&amp;id=81314">Dylan Schiemann</a>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  working at google seemed less like an interesting opportunity ...and more of a clusterfuck.
  -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schachter">Joshua Schachte</a>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  you know what you like; there's nothing wrong with that.<br>
  <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com" rel="me">-me</a>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  you hear 37 signals talk about small teams. well, it doesn't get smaller than an husband and wife in a bedroom.<br>
  -<a href="http://mena.typepad.com/">mena trott</a>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  do our assumptions match your research?<br>
  -<a href="http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=show&amp;id=IAP060020">the design fab five</a><br>
  <em>research?</em><br>
  -<a href="http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=show&amp;id=IAP060077">craig newmark</a>
</blockquote>

<p>these are all the best that i could write them down after hearing them in the panel. so we'll call these paraphrases, but they are pretty damn close.</p>