Quotation of the day for May 31, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 31, 2012 "Originally Tesla wanted to be a poet, but after getting zapped by static electricity from his kitty he was inspired to study the effects of electricity. One could vaguely construe that Tesla's cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived." - Matthew Inman, aka "The Oatmeal", in his tribute to Nikola Tesla. [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin May 14, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 30, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 30, 2012 "I'm not a birther. I believe the president was born in Hawaii -- or at least I hope he was." - Ken Bennett, Secretary of State of Arizona, explaining why U.S. President Barack Obama may not be on the ballot in Arizona this fall. [http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/arizona_ken_bennett_obama_birth_certificate_birther.php] Submitted by: Kelly Groves May 18, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 29, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 29, 2012 "Artists have seen their most important assets collectivized by file-sharing. They no long control the distribution and exploitation of these assets. If this were happening to practically any other group of Americans there would be mass outrage and civil unrest. Other than Ted Nugent and John Popper most musicians are not heavily armed. Hence the lack of armed standoffs." - David Lowery, on musicians and the new digital economy. [http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 25, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 28, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 28, 2012 "It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite--that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that." - Mark Twain, from a letter to Helen Keller. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 27, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 27, 2012 "I wonder if some of the protesting students dimly sense this themselves; anyone who misled them into believing that our current educational shambles will equip them to thrive in the modern world is their real enemy, not Jean Charest. In Canada, we spend lavishly on universities that have forgotten their raison d'etre. They teach useless subjects, often badly. They are run by careerists not scholars. They practise grade inflation on a Weimar Republic scale. They are hothouses of political correctness and conformist thinking. They lack financial accountability." - Ian Hunter, professor emeritus with the University of Western Ontario's law faculty, responding to the spring 2012 student protests in Quebec. Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko May 21, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 26, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 26, 2012 "No one here is a Luddite who denies the manifold benefits that technology has brought to mankind as a whole,' said Eytan Kobre, spokesman for the event. "But at a certain point, a mature, thinking individual stops and says, 'I've got to make a... cost-benefit analysis... [of] what ways it is enriching my life, [and] in what ways it is undermining it.'" - Eytan Kobre, spokesman for an Orthodox Jewish rally on the Internet, quoted in Forward. [http://forward.com/articles/156102/orthodox-rally-for-a-more-kosher-internet/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 25, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2012 "Obscurity is obscurity, but disappearance is fame." - Carey McWilliams, biographer of Ambrose Bierce. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 16, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 24, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 24, 2012 "My favorite thing to buy is underwear. I think buying underwear is the most personal thing you can do, and if you could watch a person buying underwear you would really get to know them. I mean, I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote. I think the strangest people are the ones who send someone else to buy their underwear for them. I also wonder about people who don't buy underwear. I can understand not wearing it, but not buying it?" - Andy Warhol, from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 23, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 23, 2012 "I'm not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was." - Mitt Romney, presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, on comments he made in an interview with Sean Hannity. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/us/politics/romney-condemns-ad-proposal-using-rev-jeremiah-wright.html] Submitted by: Jeff Copeland May 17, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 22, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2012 "How does it happen then that of the three arts that imitate Nature, the one whose expression is the most arbitrary and the least precise speaks the most powerfully to the soul?" - Denis Diderot, on music, in his Lettre sur les sourds et muets. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 16, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 21, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 21, 2012 "The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts and it exemplifies the basis of what I can only describe as "community capital" -- that invisible but vital element that holds communities together. When you think about it, at the end of the day it is communities, in all their forms, that are at the heart of everything and I believe they function at their best when people have real identity, a sense of belonging and a commitment to each other." - HRH The Prince Of Wales, in an article written in advance of his 2012 Canadian tour. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 18, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 20, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 20, 2012 "Jarry began the day by consuming two litres of white wine, then three absinthes between ten o'clock and midday, at lunch he washed down his fish, or his steak, with red or white wine alternating with further absinthes. In the afternoon, a few cups of coffee laced with brandy or other spirits whose names I've forgotten, then, with dinner--after, of course, more aperitifs--he would still be able to take at least two bottles of any vintage, good or bad. Now I never saw him really drunk...." - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery) on her friend Alfred Jarry. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 16, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 19, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 19, 2012 "Interestingly, we saw that Americans are wasting food at a progressively increasing rate. If Americans were to eat all the food that's available, we'd be even more obese." - Carson Chow, a mathematician at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Chow has determined that the obesity epidemic in the United States was caused by the overproduction of food. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/a-mathematical-challenge-to-obesity.html?_r=1] [http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 16, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 18, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 18, 2012 "It is a wofull Priviledge attending all great States and Personages, that they seldome heare any other Musick but what is Known will please them." - Roger Williams, American colonist, in 1644. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 16, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 17, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 17, 2012 The school bus crawls through pothole land mines, shot-up stop signs, sugar cane. The rosary on the rear-view mirror, raindrop tears on the wiper blades. I sit next to an old lady praying. I figure sit next to her, I'll be OK. All the way from Bomba to Ladyville I stow away, I stow away in her faith. - Danny Michel, singer-songwriter, describing a bus ride in Belize in his song This Feeling. [http://www.dannymichel.com/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 15, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 16, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 16, 2012 "I didn't do it, but I know who did." - Carlos DeLuna, to police, on being apprehended on suspicion of murder in 1983. DeLuna was convicted of murder and was executed in 1989, while the actual murderer Carlos Hernandez went unpunished. Quoted in Los Tocayos Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution. [http://www3.law.columbia.edu/hrlr/ltc/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 15, 2012

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Quotation of the day for May 15, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 15, 2012 "Truth is mysterious, elusive, ever to be won anew. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting. We must progress toward those two objectives, painfully but resolutely, sure in advance that we shall weaken and flinch on such a long road." - Albert Camus, from his acceptance speech upon being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, December 10, 1957. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Jan. 29, 2012

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