November 2010
1 post
“The man in that job shouldn’t have to be presented with anything!...”
– The Undecideds
March 2010
1 post
1 tag
February 2010
1 post
“That’s why Monday, when it sees me coming
with my convict face, blazes up...”
– Walking Around
January 2010
1 post
“Do not confuse “duty” with what other people expect of you; they are utterly...”
– The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
December 2009
2 posts
“I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study...”
– John Adams
Yes, halfway through this project we’ll discover the impossible, but we know how to build through the impossible. Impossible is when we do our best work.
The Makers of Things
May 2009
2 posts
“All you’ve forsaken
And all that you’ve done
So that I could live...”
– Endless Sacrifice
April 2009
2 posts
“Winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated,...”
– The Man Watching
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is...”
– W.H. Auden
“At every action, no matter by whom performed, make it a practice to ask...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
March 2009
1 post
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is...”
– Mark Twain
February 2009
1 post
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...”
– Ray Bradbury
October 2008
2 posts
“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take...”
– Socrates
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
– Richard Feynman (via Coding Horror)
September 2008
2 posts
“And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing...”
– Pink Floyd - Time
August 2008
4 posts
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust
“There’s nothing more satisfying than kicking someone’s ass with the...”
– Coding Horror
June 2008
4 posts
“That which we persist in doing becomes easy to do. Not that the nature of the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the productive have to ask permission from the unproductive in order to...”
– Ayn Rand, via Raganwald
“It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard. It’s...”
– John Maynard Keynes
“Never hate. Only ever destroy.”
– Giles Bowkett
May 2008
6 posts
“The way complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work is that...”
– Charlie Munger - Deserved Trust
“Decisions are made by those who show up.”
– Aaron Sorkin
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The last idea that I found very important is that I realized very early that...”
– Charlie Munger - Deserved Trust
“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is...”
– Confucius
April 2008
10 posts
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”
– Matsuo Basho
“You take my life but I take yours too
You fire your musket but I run you...”
– Iron Maiden - The Trooper
“Freedom isn’t something you have for the sake of having, you have to want...”
– Max Brooks - World War Z (p. 232)
March 2008
5 posts
“Life is an unending series of auditions. Get used to it.”
– Boing Boing’s Moderation Policy
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
– Warren Buffett
“Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get...”
– Warren Buffett
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
– Warren Buffett
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the...”
– Justice Brandeis
February 2008
8 posts
“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of...”
– John Milton
