Al Boliska on Technology
July 13th, 2008Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
- Al Boliska
William Gibson on Technology
July 13th, 2008Dreaming 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
Bill Vaughn on Age
July 13th, 2008Economists 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
Francis Bacon on Age
July 12th, 2008I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
Lewis Thomas on Science
July 12th, 2008The 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
Pearl S. Buck on Jobs & Working
July 12th, 2008To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
- Pearl S. Buck
Marcus Tullius Cicero on Age
July 12th, 2008As 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
Dan Quayle on Politics
July 11th, 2008You have a part-time job and that’s better than no job at all.
- Dan Quayle
Lord Byron on Death
July 11th, 2008‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron
Harold S. Geneen on Business
July 11th, 2008In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold S. Geneen
