Posted on October 11, 2020 “They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940
Posted on October 8, 2020 “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626
Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”—Richard P. Feynman, American physicist, 1918-1988
Posted on September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 “The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
Posted on September 23, 2020 “Solvitur ambulando.” (“It is solved by walking.”)—St. Jerome, Early Christian theologian, 347-420 AD
Posted on September 20, 2020 “Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.”—Arthur Helps, English writer, 1813-1875
Posted on September 18, 2020 “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”—Susan Sontag, American writer, 1933-2004
Posted on September 14, 2020 “Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774
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