January 2012
1 post
November 2011
7 posts
If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people...
– Soichiro Honda
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
– Akira Kurosawa
It seems to me that if you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor...
– George Monbiot in the Guardian yesterday
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others,...
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
October 2011
12 posts
I watched people at Apple who made a lot of money and felt they had to live...
– Steve Jobs
If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless...
– William Gibson
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly...
– Aristotle
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs...
– Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
The counterpart for education would be to “buy” a share in an...
– THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION by Milton Friedman (1955)
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of...
– Sinclair Lewis
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...
– Albert Einstein
Nationalism is the worst enemy of peace.
– George Orwell
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
– John Gilmore
We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and...
– Niels Bohr
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
– Niels Bohr
When we give people choice, we make them richer.
– Seth Godin
September 2011
5 posts
If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you...
– Jim Rogers
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
August 2011
5 posts
When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a...
– Lord Falkland
July 2011
5 posts
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a...
June 2011
2 posts
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into...
– Samuel Butler
May 2011
14 posts
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
– Marcel Proust
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
– Andre Gide
The rigid rules are also explicitly visible in the Hungarian language and the...
– http://lugemine.blogspot.com/2008/04/colin-swatridge-country-full-of-aliens.html
This extraterrestrial hypothesis was jokingly suggested in response to...
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
– Shaquille ONeal
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely...
– Oscar Wilde
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
– Winston Churchill
Above and below, a chain of houses climbs the canyon wall: a social chain, an...
– A.M. Homes / This book will save your life
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....
– Steve Jobs