April 10, 2008
From my buddy Peter
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. - VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)
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November 02, 2007
Fabulous Truth
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates
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August 14, 2007
Reality
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
-- Jack Wagner
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August 09, 2007
Character
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar
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August 08, 2007
Your Time in Hell
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw
*LOL*
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July 08, 2007
So True It Sucks!
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden
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July 02, 2007
Those silly little words...
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams
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July 01, 2007
A Pogo Gem
Beauty is only a lightswitch away
-- subwayloser2 on Pogo
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June 24, 2007
Nature's Experiment
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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October 19, 2006
books are more than books...
"For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives."
-- Amy Lowell
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July 20, 2006
A Hobbit's Perspective
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. --
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
ya, you might learn something, or be blind sided by a Hummer...
: )
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July 07, 2006
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann
true that.
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June 06, 2006
jeez... can't tell you how accurate this is!
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs
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May 23, 2006
what's really right n wrong?
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain
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May 18, 2006
Insanity...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- - Albert Einstein
love it. live it every day. now at least i know why. : )
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May 16, 2006
the weather
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
-- Kin Hubbard
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May 03, 2005
libraries increase your life span
"There are few pleasures in life so steadily exciting as the voyages of discovery that are made in libraries. It is the book next to the one you first reach for that makes the day and leads you to the unknown land....A Persian proverb says that time spent fishing is not deducted from your life-span. Somehow I feel that time spent in a library may actually be added on."
--John Cairns, "Matters of Life and Death", 1997, PrincetonUP
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April 25, 2005
automakers on environmental progress
"Automakers have to stop trying to block environmental progress ... They should put engineers to work, not lawyers and lawsuits"
-- David Friedman, research director, Union of Concerned Scientists' clean vehicle program
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April 19, 2005
from Google
"...if people don't take the time to understand the underlying role of libraries and other information systems, then they don't get the full depth of a foundation on which to perform research."
-- Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's VP of Product Management
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