Thought for the day

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. - Richard Feynman

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If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.  - Sydney Smith

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.  - H. P. Lovecraft

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. - G. K. Chesterton

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

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I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. - Ecclesiastes 9:11

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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - M. Cartmill

Thought for the day: Putt's Law

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.  - Putt's Law

Thought for the day, special "back in NYC" edition

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.  - Umberto Eco

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.  - Sydney Smith

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"A gourmet who considers calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." - James Beard

(source: friend Marci's Sunday afternoon Facebook status)

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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
- Dean Martin

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. - Russell Baker

Apologies for the light blogging. The kind of writing *I've* chosen to do for a living does in fact involve real work, and my team just shoved a 500+ page proposal response out the door last night.

More soon.

This thought for the day is for you, Lou Dobbs

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.  - Robert Orben

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"It’s good to see the stocks rebounding. I haven’t seen anything shoot up this fast since Amy Winehouse." - Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.  - Horace Walpole