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