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?
23.Feb.2010 Quote – Sun Tzu
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
16.Feb.2010 Quote – Bill Bryson
For a long time it puzzled me how something to expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, [...]
13.Jan.2010 Quote: 2001
That very word “newspaper,” of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics. The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites. The thoughts of Heyward Floyd [...]
05.Jan.2010 Quote – Carl Sagan
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth–scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books–might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. [...]
