02.Sep.2010 Quote – eat this, not that
Eat smart today because you’ll have to do it again tomorrow. Eat This, Not That! (page 16) David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding Thoroughly enjoying the quips in the writing and getting totally grossed out by chain restaurant menus.
06.Aug.2010 Quote – 1984
on the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe… George Orwell, 1984 (page 103)
31.Jul.2010 Quote – Ray Kurzweil
From The Singularity is Near, Still Human? Some observers refer to the post-Singularity period as “posthuman” and refer to the anticipation of this period as posthumanism. However, to me being human means being part of a civilization that seeks to extend its boundaries. We are already reaching beyond our biology by rapidly gaining the tools [...]
28.Jul.2010 Quote – Textbooks are the hummer of higher education
Textbooks, with or without the bundled DVDs, are…”The Hummer of higher education.” Judy Baker and Anya Kamenetz “The Real Cost of College Textbooks” NYTimes online.
27.Jul.2010 Quote – Haruki Murakami
Still, some might read this book and say, “hey, I’m going to give running a try, and then discover they enjoy it. And of course that would be a beautiful thing. As the author of this book I’d be very pleased if that happened. But people have their own individual likes and dislikes. Some people [...]
26.May.2010 Quote – Muhammad Yunus
Mr. Yunus states. “When we were in the caves we were all self-employed … finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where the human history began … As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because [they] stamped us, ‘You are labor.’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.” From The Little Big Things, by Tom [...]
30.Apr.2010 Quote – Tom Peters
people first, people second, people third, people ad infinitum That’s the way I like to do business. From The Little Big Things by Tom Peters
22.Apr.2010 Quote – Anna Kamenetz
…a video version of the course supplemented with a set number of hours of live teaching support, either delivered remotely by a…grad student, or live and in person from a local instructor, for a charge somewhere between zero and several thousand dollars, with credit awarded by your local institution. The existence of such an option–call [...]
25.Mar.2010 Quote – Mark Twain
The Post Office Department of the United States is an Ass. Mark Twain, Who is Mark Twain
01.Mar.2010 Quote – Mark Twain
Nothing has to be paid but the rest of the debt; and here I stand, nobly paying it—out of your pockets. That is the way with debts; they just dump along, from shoulder to shoulder, and you never know who has got to foot the bill at last. Mark Twain, Who is Mark Twain?
