Saturday, September 01, 2007
Pithy F*rging Sayings (2nd edition)
Pithy F*rging Sayings from the Singularity
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or a heartfelt compliment." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"No creature wants to be in a cage." -Staff
"Access to power must be confined to men who are not in love with it." -Plato
(Note/update: Access to power should not be confined to men. -the Clarion Content ed.)
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage--he won't encounter many rivals." -Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"Self-pity is the swimming pool of fools." -Staff
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." -Marion Wright Edelman
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." -Pearl Buck
"A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes." -Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Everybody looks 15% better in sunglasses." -Staff
All these sayings are by way of food for thought, rather than posited with certainty. Recall Montaigne… "All I say is by way of way of discourse…I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.”
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or a heartfelt compliment." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"No creature wants to be in a cage." -Staff
"Access to power must be confined to men who are not in love with it." -Plato
(Note/update: Access to power should not be confined to men. -the Clarion Content ed.)
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage--he won't encounter many rivals." -Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"Self-pity is the swimming pool of fools." -Staff
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." -Marion Wright Edelman
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." -Pearl Buck
"A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes." -Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Everybody looks 15% better in sunglasses." -Staff
All these sayings are by way of food for thought, rather than posited with certainty. Recall Montaigne… "All I say is by way of way of discourse…I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.”
Labels: Sayings
Comments:
Here's one more PFS that also captures something of the spirit of the post about the relativity of crazy. Sadly, but perhaps culturally emblematic, it is from an ad.
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-- Think Different, Apple Computers Advertisement
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-- Think Different, Apple Computers Advertisement
