01.26.08
Problems.
We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein
12.11.07
Perfectionism
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
09.02.07
Procrastinating
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
–Pablo Picasso
06.20.07
Tom Perkins’ Yacht
Tom Perkins (of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers fame) recently launched his new ship at a party… the yacht was decorated with signal flags. From Newsweek,
…in the system of international maritime signals, each flag [on the yacht] represented a letter. Ever the paragon of capitalism, Perkins’s playful message spelled out, “Rarely does one have the privilege to witness vulgar ostentation displayed on such a scale.”
06.09.07
Seriously
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
-Nicholas Butler
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)