Posted 12 January 2006
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
—Thomas Jefferson
Posted 12 January 2006
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
—Eric Hoffer
Posted 12 January 2006
I have learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
—Leo Rosten
Posted 12 January 2006
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
—Grace Hopper
Posted 12 January 2006
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
—Albert Einstein
Posted 12 January 2006
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
—H. L. Mencken
Posted 12 January 2006
The odds of a secret getting out are the square of the number of people who know it.
—Unknown
Posted 12 January 2006
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin
Posted 12 January 2006
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
—Robert Heinlein
Posted 12 January 2006
When you have something hard to do, stop working on figuring out why you can’t do it, and just assume that you have to do it. Figure out how to do it, then figure out how to enjoy it, then do it. And none of the above will turn out to have actually been hard at all. And your life will go the way you want it to.
—Neil Arthur
