Al Boliska on Technology

July 13th, 2008

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

- Al Boliska

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William Gibson on Technology

July 13th, 2008

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.

- William Gibson

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Bill Vaughn on Age

July 13th, 2008

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

- Bill Vaughn

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Francis Bacon on Age

July 12th, 2008

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

- Francis Bacon

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Lewis Thomas on Science

July 12th, 2008

The uniformity of earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

- Lewis Thomas

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Pearl S. Buck on Jobs & Working

July 12th, 2008

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

- Pearl S. Buck

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Marcus Tullius Cicero on Age

July 12th, 2008

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Dan Quayle on Politics

July 11th, 2008

You have a part-time job and that’s better than no job at all.

- Dan Quayle

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Lord Byron on Death

July 11th, 2008

‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

- Lord Byron

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Harold S. Geneen on Business

July 11th, 2008

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

- Harold S. Geneen

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