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January 11, 2007

The only stable thing...

In life the only stable thing... ... is movement-- Jean Tinguely

January 2, 2007

The Simplicity on the other side of Complexity

"I wouldn't give a nickel for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." -Einstein

Achievement of the year last year. Getting to this level of simplicity on a system we designed. It was a sweet victory.

July 10, 2006

The highest reward

The highest reward for a persons toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin

ain't that wonderful

July 9, 2006

Right writing

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

May 22, 2006

Conformity

Sometimes I think we have created a tyranny of conformity, of a new and altogether different kind to those that have gone before.

Then I saw this quote from the wonderful Peter Ustinov.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov

Or as Bruce Springsteen once put it "57 Channels and nothing on...."

May 4, 2006

No great thing

No great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus

January 21, 2006

Man forged manacles of the mind

Quote from blake on BBC2 this evening

"mind-forg'd manacles"

somehow I remembered it as
the man forged manacles of the mind

It sounds like Zen. It reflects cognitive psychology. Truth in poetry.