05.23.07
The Future
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.-William Gibson
05.11.07
Ought To Be…
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
-William Hazlitt
04.11.07
Knowledge
This is what knowledge really is. It is finding out something for oneself with pain, with joy, with exultancy, with labor, and with all the ticking breathing moments of our lives, until it is ours as that only is ours which is rooted in the structure of our lives.-Thomas Wolfe (1900 - 1938)
04.01.07
B-Schoolin’
An entertaining quote from Mao Xian:
I should have taken the money spent on business school and leased a Bloomberg terminal and explored it for fourteen months instead. With the savings, I could have gone to night school at DeVry in New Brunswick and learned how to program instead. In other words, I could have done something useful and productive, instead of getting a stupid MBA. Live and learn.
…the MBA is just a union card, it’ll open doors in the corporate world, especially if you went to a Top 20 school, but who wants to be a suit?
03.29.07
Patriotism
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.-George Jean Nathan
03.22.07
Persistence
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.-Calvin Coolidge
03.12.07
If something is worth doing…
We all know the saying “if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing it right.” Here comes a logical consequence…
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.”
-Elias Schwartz
01.16.07
Corruptible?
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
- David Brin
A friend recently gave me a little poster that says, “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Bit it rocks absolutely too.” I couldn’t agree more, but I don’t think I’ve come close to absolute power yet…
01.15.07
Genius
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
11.16.06
Extraordinary
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
-Elbert Hubbard
