Quotation of the day for January 31, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 31, 2014 "I also love a well-turned limerick. But imagine if every poem were a limerick. Imagine if the great poetry competitions stipulated that every poem submitted must be a limerick, and there were then 20 sub-limerick categories (contemporary limerick, adult limerick, urban limerick, emerging limericists), and then one category for every other form, called 'other." Would you not get bored with limericks? Would you not start turning solely to the "other" category for the most interesting new work? "The song is the musical equivalent of the limerick. It is a form that has reached mass popularity, and that's great, but I'm wondering how its hegemony can possibly last. It's been the dominant musical form since the advent of mass media itself - so let's say about 100 years - and nobody is bored with it yet?" - Russell Smith, on the Grammys and songs. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/why-is-pop-music-stuck-on-the-same-old-song/article16557019/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 31, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 30, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 30, 2014 "Our digital reach will soon approach nearly every internet user in the US." - Scott Howe, CEO of Acxiom, a database marketing firm. [http://acxiom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FY14_Q1_Earnings_Prepared_Remarks-Final.pdf] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 28, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 29, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 29, 2014 "I think cats are much less demonstrative animals than dogs are. It's kind of not their fault; they evolved from a solitary animal that has never had the need for a sophisticated social repertoire in the way that the dog -- having evolved from the wolf -- had that ready-made. So their faces are just not terribly expressive, and some people read into that, that they're kind of cynical and aloof and those sorts of things. But I don't believe that for a moment. I think cats show, by their behavior, even if it's a bit more subtle than a dog's, that they really are fond of their owners." - John Bradshaw, in the book Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet. Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 22, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 28, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 28, 2014 "Since the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, the nation has been beset by serious storms and floods. "One recent one caused the worst flooding for 60 years. The Christmas floods were the worst in 127 years. Is this just 'global warming' or is there something more serious at work? "The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war." - David Silvester, Henley councillor representing the UK Independence Party, explaining the cause of recent extreme weather in Britain in a letter to the Henley Standard. [http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?tabp=y&id=39426] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 22, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 27, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 27, 2014 "It turns out that although there is a lot of hype from companies that sell open office furniture and related goods about how fantastic open offices are, and all that, research published in peer review journals clashes with the hype. In every study that I can find that has survived the peer review process, people in open settings are found to be less satisfied, less productive, and experience more stress than people who work in closed offices. And when people move from closed to open offices, they like them less, report being less productive, and report more stress. So long as people are doing work that is largely "individual" and that requires thinking and intense individual concentration, these findings make a lot of sense to me. "Yet, as Lovaglia's Law predicts, many administrators and building designers seem to be have a hard time "hearing" such evidence and keep pushing for open office designs - they prefer to talk about selected anecdotes instead. Indeed, there are popular articles on how management can overcome such 'irrational' resistance to change. But those articles don't seem to mention that, at least for people who don't do highly interdependent team based work such as is done in engineering and scientific labs, open offices don't appear to work very well, so such resistance to open offices might, in fact, be rational." - Robert Sutton, workplace researcher. [http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12/lovaglias-law-a.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 23, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 26, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 26, 2014 "When it comes to real understanding, the humanities are nothing we have to take seriously except as symptoms. But they are everything we have to take seriously when it comes to entertainment, enjoyment and psychological satisfaction. Just don't treat them as knowledge or wisdom." - Alex Rosenberg, in The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions. Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 22, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 25, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 25, 2014 "When we killed - or exiled - God, we also killed ourselves. Did we notice that sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren't going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from the height-even if it was only the illusion of a view-wasn't so bad." - Julian Barnes, in The Levels of Life. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 24, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 24, 2014 "You know, for us, this would have been a dream come true." - Wolfgang Schmidt, former lieutenant colonel in the Stasi, the former East Germany's secret police. Schmidt was commenting on the magnitude of domestic spying in the United States. [http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/26/195045/memories-of-stasi-color-germans.html#.Uc3DBZKAba8] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 20, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 23, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 23, 2014 ...In the pewter mornings, the cat, a black fur sausage with yellow Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not I'm dead. If I'm not, he wants to be scratched; if I am He'll think of something. He settles on my chest, breathing his breath of burped-up meat and musty sofas, purring like a washboard. - Margaret Atwood, from her poem February. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 22, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 22, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 22, 2014 "The bartender, who doesn't serve his concoctions to the public, uses a rapid-infusion technique to make a smoky marijuana-mescal, double charging a canister of mescal and marijuana with nitrous. The first charge dissolves the gas into the mescal; the second forces the mescal to permeate the bud. When the canister is opened, releasing the pressure, the enhanced alcohol seeps back out of the plant. He's got a friend who pairs marijuana with gin and chartreuse for a lighter profile. "It's being done all over the country," he told me. "It's so illegal on so many levels that no one talks about it openly."" - Dana Goodyear, in Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 21, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 21, 2014 "The 'Internet of Things' holds great promise for enabling control of all of the gadgets that we use on a daily basis. It also holds great promise for cybercriminals who can use our homes' routers, televisions, refrigerators and other Internet-connected devices to launch large and distributed attacks." - Michael Osterman, principal analyst at Osterman Research. An attack on Internet-connected devices in late 2013 and early 2014 resulted in 750,000 phishing and spam emails being sent from "thingbots", including televisions and refrigerators. [http://www.proofpoint.com/about-us/press-releases/01162014.php] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 20, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 20, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 20, 2014 "I was so poor that a guy who'd stolen my credit card went online to complain that I was so broke he couldn't even pay for a dinner with my credit card." - Mike Tyson, boxer, from his memoir Undisputed Truth. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 19, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 19, 2014 "Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 18, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 18, 2014 "I've told you that you are far more insignificant than you ever thought," [Krauss] tells an audience, after explaining that the universe can spring from nothing, with no recourse to a God or a miracle. "And that's what I want you to celebrate," he continues, to laughter. Instead of being depressed or looking to God to give your life meaning, "You create your own meaning and enjoy your moment in the sun," he says. - Lawrence Krauss, cosmologist at Arizona State University, quoted from the new documentary "The Unbelievers". [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/science/space/the-unbelievers-chronicles-road-tripping-scientists-promoting-reason.html?_r=1&] Submitted by: Rob Wood Dec. 11, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 17, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 17, 2014 "Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it. No one's born a computer scientist, but with a little hard work and a little math and science, just about anyone can become one." - Barack Obama, kicking off Computer Science Education Week Submitted by: Patsy Wang-Iverson Jan. 8, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 16, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 16, 2014 "If you tie yourself to national security, you get funding and you get exemptions on disclosure cases. You get all the wonderful arguments about how if you don't get your way, buildings will blow up and the country will be less safe." - Kel McClanahan, a Washington-based national security lawyer, on the FBI now listing "national security" as its chief mission. [http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/05/fbi_drops_law_enforcement_as_primary_mission#sthash.t5A1d0p1.dpbs] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 7, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 15, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for January 15, 2014 "I played a lot of role-player games. Believe me, there are a lot of obsessive people out there who could probably put their passions to a more productive use." - Eliot Higgins, on the skills that made him a go-to blogger on the Syrian civil war. [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/19/the-rise-of-brown-moses-how-an-unemployed-british-man-became-a-poster-boy-for-citizen-journalism/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 6, 2014

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