Archive for June, 2007

Newt Gingrich on Science

Monday, June 25th, 2007

It’s going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

- Newt Gingrich

Scott McNealy on Technology

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Computers shouldn’t be unusable. You don’t need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

- Scott McNealy

Izaak Walton on Nature

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

- Izaak Walton

Rene Descartes on Dreams & Dreaming

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

- Rene Descartes

William Congreve on Love

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

- William Congreve

Oscar Wilde on Jobs & Working

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

- Oscar Wilde

Betty Bender on Jobs & Working

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.

- Betty Bender

Arnold Palmer on Sports

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

- Arnold Palmer

John Perry Barlow on Technology

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

- John Perry Barlow

George Will on Politics

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny arf - the sound of a lap dog.

- George Will