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Too often, I think “work in progress” means “Help! I don’t have any clue on where I’m going.” — Warren Murphy
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“To live in this world properly…”
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your horoscope day by day. — Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum.
Wealth is not Pizza
There’s nothing the matter with honest moneymaking. Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box. In a free society, with the rule of law and property rights, no one loses when someone else gets rich. — P. J. O’Rourke
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life….”
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. — John Wayne
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…it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine.
— Leibnitz
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do…”
Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
From none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies
Who makes and keep his self-made laws.
— Sir Richard Francis Burton
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work [...]
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There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you were meant to be. — The Beatles
Sometimes, the art of the thing must be admired.
Genuine anger requires time, reflection, and something heavy that balances well in your hand. — Kate@Small Dead Animals.
Polls are not data
Polls are not data; polls are stories people tell about their data. — “Slartibartfast”