Christopher Lehmann-Haupt on Art

September 26th, 2006

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

W. Edwards Deming on Business

September 25th, 2006

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

- W. Edwards Deming

Mason Cooley on Business

September 25th, 2006

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

- Mason Cooley

Oscar Wilde on Knowledge & Learning

September 24th, 2006

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

Ann Richards on Jobs & Working

September 24th, 2006

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

- Ann Richards

Bryan Ferry on Music

September 23rd, 2006

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

- Bryan Ferry

Howard Aiken on Business

September 22nd, 2006

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

- Howard Aiken

Christopher Columbus on History

September 22nd, 2006

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

- Christopher Columbus

Ellen Key on Art

September 21st, 2006

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

- Ellen Key

Jackie Kennedy on History

September 21st, 2006

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

- Jackie Kennedy