Wednesday, November 30, 2011

“A Platypus is a duck designed by a committee.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”

        — Ann Landers

Monday, November 28, 2011

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”

        — William James

Friday, November 25, 2011

“My project is 90% done. I hope the second half goes as well.”

        — Scott W. Ambler (@scottwambler

Thursday, November 24, 2011

“Good design is clear thinking made visible. Bad design is stupidity made visible.”

        — Edward Tufte

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

“We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.”

        — Proverb

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

        — Ernest Gaines

Monday, November 21, 2011

“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.”

        — Unknown

Friday, November 18, 2011

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

Thursday, November 17, 2011

“The difference between a stupid man and a wise one is the stupid man’s inability to calculate the consequences of the action. The same goes for government.”

        — Brian Penton

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

“If a web site goes down, and there’s nobody searching for it, is it really offline?”

        — Gary Markstein and Anthony Rubino Jr, Daddy’s Home

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

        — Edmund Burke

Monday, November 14, 2011

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”

        — Howard Mumford Jones

Friday, November 11, 2011

“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

        — Robert Byrne

Thursday, November 10, 2011

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

“I was married by a judge – I should have asked for a jury.”

        — Groucho Marx

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”

        — E. B. White

Monday, November 7, 2011

“So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.”

        — Jason Love

Friday, November 4, 2011

“Always kiss your children good night, even if they’re already asleep.”

        — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”

        — Alfred Korzybski

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

“The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose.”

        — Australian convict saying