Monday - January 16, 20063.14159265358979…“How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature,
after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
—The first 15 digits of pi, Author unknown
(hint: count the number of letters in each word)
Thursday - January 12, 2006Thinking outside the box“She’s built another box inside the
actual box and is doing all her thinking inside that.”
—Hugh Abbot,
The Thick of It
Sunday - August 28, 2005Choosing the right goal“If you want to be happy, set a goal that
commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your
hopes.”
— Andrew Carnegie
Monday - August 08, 2005Into the looking glass“Whoever looks at the world rationally will
find that it in turn assumes a rational aspect; the two exist in a reciprocal
relationship.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
Lectures on the Philosophy of World
History
Monday - July 25, 2005Off the beaten track“Do not go where the path may lead; go
instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday - July 14, 2005The end of the Stone Age“The Stone Age did not end because humans
ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we
live.”
— William McDonough, Technology,
Entertainment and Design conference
Thursday - July 07, 2005The pros and cons of reincarnation“You've got one life and that's it.
Everyone says you come back as a fish or an animal. But what are you going to do
when you're a fish?”
— Danny from Essex, aged
11
Monday - July 04, 2005Civilised leisure“To be able to fill leisure intelligently
is the last product of civilisation.”
— Bertrand Russell
Saturday - July 02, 2005Monogamy“I think I've got monogamy. I must have
caught it from you people!”
— Samantha,
Sex And The City
Tuesday - June 28, 2005The whole and its parts“To be confused about what is different and
what is not, is to be confused about everything.”
— David Bohm,
Wholeness and the Implicate
Order
Friday - June 17, 2005Change is the only constant“Everything in life is impermanent and
constantly changing.”
— Siddhartha Guatama
Buddha
Friday - June 03, 2005Statistic of the week“European governments give [each] poor
person in Africa 0.65 euros (£0.44) a year each compared with 848 euros
(£572) for every surplus cow…”
— Bob Geldof,
BBC News
Saturday - May 28, 2005Sensations and perceptions“If, as Aristotle said, ‘thought and
its object are one,’ so are sensations and perceptions one with their
‘objects.’ In fact, there are not sensations or perceptions and
their objects. There are objects, and when these are included in the manifold
called consciousness they are called sensations and
perceptions.”
— E B Holt,
The Concept of
Consciousness
Saturday - May 28, 2005The power of ignorance“Whatever you are
totally
ignorant of, assert to be the explanation of everything
else.”
— William James
Monday - May 23, 2005A robot's worst nightmareBender: “It was terrible, ones and zeros
everywhere! I think I might have seen a
two…”
Fry: “Don't worry Bender, it was only a dream. There's no such thing as two.” —
Futurama
Friday - May 20, 2005Free speech“Wise men talk because they have something
to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
— Plato
Friday - May 20, 2005Conservatism“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservatives.”
— J S Mill
Wednesday - May 18, 2005Consumer culture“A car, a blue convertible, sleek and
desirable, came sweeping west out of Beverly Hills along the, as I understand
it, gracious curves of Sunset Boulevard. Anybody seeing such a car would have
wanted it. Obviously. It was designed to make you want it. If people had turned
out not to want it very much, the makers would have redesigned it and redesigned
it until they did. The world is now full of things like this, which is, of
course, why everybody is in such a permanent state of
want.”
— Douglas Adams,
The Salmon of
Doubt
Sunday - May 15, 2005A wizard's counsel“All we have do decide is what to do with
the time that is given to us.”
— Gandalf in
Lord of The
Rings, and Morpheus in
The
Matrix trilogy
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