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
11.14.06
Rage and Loathing
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
10.07.06
May you live in interesting times…
There’s an interesting question about where this phrase comes from:
May you live in interesting times.
- Ancient Chinese Curse (or Old Scottish Curse)
09.15.06
Goombah
I had no idea goombah was a term of affection.
goombah (GOOM-bah) noun
1. Friend, accomplice, or crony.
2. Godfather or mentor.
08.27.06
The News Cycle
“A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.”
-Henry Fielding
The same could be said about 24 hour news channels…
08.25.06
The Habit of Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
08.24.06
On Certainty
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
08.18.06
The Truth
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
-Ludwig von Mises
