Quotation of the day for September 30, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 30, 2010 "I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists." - Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, responding to a suvrvey showing that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than believers. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28religion.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 29, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 29, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 29, 2010 "Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt." - Stewart L. Udall Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Aug. 20, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 28, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 28, 2010 "I have never needed a break from music. Music is my air. Music is my husband. Music is my firstborn and my first love, my stitches, my drug of choice, my connection to every other thing in my life. What I never need is a break from it. The break is what broke me. And music mended me as soon as I respected it enough to free it." - Anna Nalick, singer-songwriter. [http://www.annanalick.com/] Submitted by: Duffy O'Craven Sep. 20, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 27, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 27, 2010 True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (1711) [http://readytogoebooks.com/AP-EC55-2.htm] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 10, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 26, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 26, 2010 "Although they be destitute of Taverns, yet have they their Coffa-houses, which something resemble them. There sit they chatting most of the day; and sippe of a drinke called Coffa (of the berry that it is made of) in little China dishes as hot as they can suffer it: blacke as soote, and tasting not much unlike it..." - Sir George Sandys (1577-1644), on encountering coffee-houses in Turkey in 1610. [http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B0/B701/11MB701.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 25, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 25, 2010 "The word has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning." - Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Vatican astronomer, on "intelligent design". [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/17/pope-astronomer-baptise-aliens] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 22, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 24, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 24, 2010 "And you, you who can be silent in four languages: Your silence will be considered your consent." - Laurie Anderson, from her song, "Another Day In America". Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Sep. 20, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 23, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 23, 2010 "Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea." - Aristophanes, from his play The Knights (424 B.C.E.) [http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/knights.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 22, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 22, 2010 "Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flash of truth." - Jules Michelet, historian. Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 21, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 21, 2010 "To set up a government program, where you apply for a permit to study [harmonica], strictly in absolute privacy, and then you'd be required to take a stringent test to see if you can be licensed to play in public. I'd be happy to oversee the whole operation." - Rick Estrin, lead singer and harmonica player of Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, offers tongue-in-cheek advice on how beginning harmonica players should be treated. [http://www.rickestrin.com] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 20, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 20, 2010 "This is Ireland, and no family worth the name is without a secret. And you should know that in this country a secret is something that everyone else knows." - Frank Delaney, from his book "Ireland, A Novel". Submitted by: Jon O'Brien Sep. 3, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 19, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 19, 2010 "Baths, wine and sex spoil our bodies; but baths, wine and sex make up life." ["Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra; sed vitam faciunt balnea, vina, Venus."] - the epitaph of Tiberius Claudius Secundus. Recorded in Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VI 15258. Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 18, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 18, 2010 So ya thought ya Might like to go to the show. To feel the warm thrill of confusion, That space cadet glow. I've got some bad news for you, sunshine, Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel And they sent us along as a surrogate band. We're gonna find out where you fans really stand. - Roger Waters, from his song In The Flesh, from the Pink Floyd album The Wall. Waters is touring a new production of The Wall, which opened Sept. 15, 2010 in Toronto. [The submitter notes: The concert was awesome!] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 16, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 17, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 17, 2010 "As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." - Nicholas Carr, author of the 2010 book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 16, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 16, 2010 "This may be telling us something very deep about the world we live in, or it may be no more than a quirky coincidence", said Duff. "Either way, it's useful." - Mike Duff, lead author of a study suggesting that string theory may be testable, quoted in a press release. [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_1-9-2010-12-30-3] Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Sep. 2, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 15, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 15, 2010 "I think that goes along with the fact that, like: 'If you do something really bad, I'm going to write a song about you.' Maybe that's the wrath that they're talking about. I'm not violent." - Taylor Swift, transcribed from "On the Set Behind the Scenes at the Music Videos -- White Horse", track 7 of the Fearless Platinum Edition Video DVD. [The submitter notes: "There's levels of messing up. Imagine being the guy that Taylor Swift writes White Horse about. Wrath indeed."] Submitted by: Duffy O'Craven Sep. 4, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 14, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 14, 2010 "When someone is seeking," said Siddhartha, "it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose." - Herman Hesse, Siddhartha. Submitted by: Chris Doherty Sep. 5, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 13, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 13, 2010 "In a dictatorship, which is the worst form of government, you only have one choice for a leader. In a democracy we have two, one more than a dictatorship. Everyone says democracy is so good, but in reality it's just one shitty choice away from the worst form of government possible." - Colin Quinn, from his one man off-Broadway show,Long Story Short. Submitted by: Eric Marvets Sep. 6, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 12, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 12, 2010 "Fermentation and civilization are inseparable." - John Ciardi, poet. Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 11, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 11, 2010 "Television's greatest appeal is that it is engaging without being at all demanding." - David Foster Wallace, in "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young". Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 10, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 10, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 10, 2010 Not long ago I was at a party in San Francisco. There I talked with a young man who was already a veteran of several start-ups. When I asked him what his new company did, he said "we're an arms merchant to the portals industry." I had no idea what he meant. But he answered every one of my questions with more buzzwords. They were "networking eyeball paradigms," "portalizing B2B solutions," "scaling strategic synergies" and so on. Finally I asked a rude question: how are sales? He said, "They're great. We just closed our second round of financing." - Doc Searls, from a talk he gave in 2000 about the Cluetrain Manifesto. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2010/09/03/3250/] Submitted by: Sid Sidner Sep. 7, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 9, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 9, 2010 A billion hours ago, human life appeared on Earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. - Roberto C. Goizueta, then CEO of Coca-Cola, from a speech delivered November 20, 1996 to The Executives' Club of Chicago. [http://goizuetafoundation.org/real-essence] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 8, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 8, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 8, 2010 Wired: Why is it so hard to convince people, even when the science is so clear? Simon Singh: Science has nothing to do with common sense. I believe it was Einstein who said that common sense is a set of prejudices we form by the age of 18. Inject somebody with some viruses and that's going to keep you from getting sick? That's not common sense. We evolved from single-cell organisms? That's not common sense. By driving my car I'm going to cook Earth? None of this is common sense. The commonsense view is what we're fighting against. So somehow you've got to move people away from that with these quite complicated scientific arguments based on even more complicated research. That's why it's such an uphill battle. People start off with a belief and a prejudice--we all do. And the job of science is to set that aside to get to the truth. - Simon Singh, writer, in an interview with Wired. [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 7, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 7, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 7, 2010 Just before the old man's eyeballs fixed He went pale as an Eskimo He said, "Young man, I've been eighty-sixed But young man, before I go I'm gonna leave you with a piece of advice Don't ever take advice from anyone It doesn't matter if you're naughty or nice You still get a lump of coal." - Richard Julian, from his song If A Heart Breaks. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Aug. 19, 2010

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Quotation of the day for September 6, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for September 6, 2010 "When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Aug. 25, 2010

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