Tuesday, June 28, 2005

"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. "
"[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. "

Friday, June 24, 2005

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Saturday, June 18, 2005

"I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publishers' desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way."

Gail Godwin, novelist
Cited in Writer's Almanac, 18 June 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