QUOTE A DAY - July 5, 2012
Greetings fellow quote lovers:Hope your 4th was filled with happiness. I took my wife to a ball game and caught a great fireworks show!
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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
--Marcus Aurelius
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
--Gilda Radner
We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color - because you don't want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
--Tibor Kalman, Famous graphics designer (Colors magazine)
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true.
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*Google burst onto the scene with the motto "do no evil" (as opposed to "do only good"). But has that attitude sustained itself? Witness Eric Schmidt touting the latest Google algorithm as able to predict what people will search for before they search for it. Not only is this pure hubris, it is 100% "bull Schmidt".
--Jaffer Ali, from 'Has Google's Empire Past its Zenith?'
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
--Karl Marx
[I think Marx got it wrong...few humans are rational.]
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true.
ANSWER: Freeman Dyson
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