December 2010
43 posts
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein
“[I]f you can’t get started, tell someone what you plan to write about, then...”
– Paul Graham, in Writing, Briefly
“[I]f you can’t get started, tell someone what you plan to write about, then...”
– Paul Graham, in Writing, Briefly
“Bill doesn’t really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you’ve...”
– Joel Spolsky, on Bill Gates, in My First BillG Review
“Bill doesn’t really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you’ve...”
– Joel Spolsky, on Bill Gates, in My First BillG Review
“We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as...”
– Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
“We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as...”
– Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will...”
– e.e. cummings
“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will...”
– e.e. cummings
“The simple stuff is hard because it makes the hard stuff simple.”
– Internal Conversations, vol. 22
“The simple stuff is hard because it makes the hard stuff simple.”
– Internal Conversations, vol. 22
“Everyone matters. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing theology to...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Everyone matters. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing theology to...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence,...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence,...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“A Jewish proverb recounts the story of a man on a boat drilling a hole beneath...”
– A Jewish Proverb
“A Jewish proverb recounts the story of a man on a boat drilling a hole beneath...”
– A Jewish Proverb
“In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say...”
– Cyril Connolly
“In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say...”
– Cyril Connolly
“Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by...”
– Howard Buffett
“Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by...”
– Howard Buffett
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
“[T]he engineer’s faith in fixes often blinds him to the fact that many problems,...”
– John Walker
“[T]he engineer’s faith in fixes often blinds him to the fact that many problems,...”
– John Walker
“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us...”
– Thomas More, from A Man for All Seasons
“I don’t know who discovered water, but it wasn’t a fish.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“I don’t know who discovered water, but it wasn’t a fish.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point when it looks...”
– Thomas Edison
“Gandalf stirred, and looked up. “What have you to say that you did not say at...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“[T]he art that conceals art … is the highest kind of art.”
– Henry Bett, Some Secrets of Style 98 (1932)
“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion....”
– Calvin Coolidge
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
– Randy Pausch
“[A] polar bear makes a great bodyguard, until it decides to eat you.”
– Fred von Lohmann
“We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out...”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization...”
– Jerry Pournelle
“I stopped worrying about what people would think about me, when I realized how...”
– Stephen Eggleston
“The criterion of personal dignity—which demands respect, generosity and...”
– John Paul II
“In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of...”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Perfect love means putting up with other people’s shortcomings, feeling no...”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
“[C]ultivate the love of words. It is important to cultivate words, to select the...”
– Rt. Hon. Lord Birkett
“Nothing spurs creativity more than a deadline.”
– Mary E. Whitehill