"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
G. K. Chesterton, for more see http://www.yuni.com/quotes/chesterton.html
Sunday, June 26, 2005
"Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers."
Andy Grove. Source: Michael Kanellos http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-5712202.html, reporting on the 18 May 2005 Intel shareholders meeting where Grove retired, reportedly making these comments: "For years and years I have wanted to have a law named after me. Call it a case of Moore envy. And this is it. Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers. "
Andy Grove. Source: Michael Kanellos http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-5712202.html, reporting on the 18 May 2005 Intel shareholders meeting where Grove retired, reportedly making these comments: "For years and years I have wanted to have a law named after me. Call it a case of Moore envy. And this is it. Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers. "
"[The] author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself"
Source: Sir Peter Medawar review of Teilhard de Chradin's The Phenomenon of Man. Fuller quote: "It is a book widely held to be of the utmost profundity and significance; it created something like a sensation upon its publication in France, and some reviewers hereabouts called it the Book of the Year --- one, the Book of the Century. Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself. "
Source: Sir Peter Medawar review of Teilhard de Chradin's The Phenomenon of Man. Fuller quote: "It is a book widely held to be of the utmost profundity and significance; it created something like a sensation upon its publication in France, and some reviewers hereabouts called it the Book of the Year --- one, the Book of the Century. Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself. "
Friday, June 24, 2005
"The best surprise is no surprise"
Holiday Inn ad campaign, started in 1975 according to http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/motel/holiday/
Holiday Inn ad campaign, started in 1975 according to http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/motel/holiday/
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Friday, June 17, 2005
"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement, 15 June 2005
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement, 15 June 2005
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
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