Archive for October, 2006

Jim Murray on Sports

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.

- Jim Murray

Karl Marx on Government

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

- Karl Marx

Casey Stengel on Humor

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.

- Casey Stengel

Alan Kay on Technology

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

- Alan Kay

Edward Bulwer-Lytton on Dreams & Dreaming

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

William E. Gladstone on Government

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

- William E. Gladstone

Will Rogers on Government

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

- Will Rogers

Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Dreams & Dreaming

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Jorge Luis Borges on Government

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Judy Garland on Love

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

- Judy Garland