Will Samson

Quote of the Day: 09.15.06

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

- Groucho Marx

(from David Batstone's Right Reality)

Seth Godin on Belief

FromL this blog post by Seth Godin:

Belief

People don't believe what you tell them.

They rarely believe what you show them.

They often believe what their friends tell them.

They always believe what they tell themselves.

Quote of the Day

If we had frozen our standard of living in 1950 and applied all subsequent productivity gains to reducing our workweek rather than increasing our consumption, today we would work two days and then we’d split for our five-day weekend. Even if we waited until 1975 to freeze the standard of living, productivity gains since then would allow us to have a three-day workweek today.

(From this article).

Quote of the Day: 06.08.06

"Divorce is not caused by 50% of marriages ending in gayness."

John Stewart in an interview with Bill Bennett

Link: YouTube - jon stewart v. bill bennett.

(Frankly, how the Virtues author has any credibility left is beyond me)

Quote of the Day: 06.06.06

Ann Coulter, writing about the widows of the 9/11 attack:

These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was an important part of their closure process. These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by "grief-arazzi's". I've never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much.

Link: Ann Coulter on the Today Show, quoted from her new hatefest, Godless

(Lord, have mercy on us)

Quote of the Day - 05.31.2006

"Your quality of life is worth more than a cheap pair of underwear."

Al Norman, head of Sprawl Busters.

Quote of the Day

This quote is from the Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab.

"But there's an inverse problem - call it the Dead Brain Problem - which is what the next batch of radical innovators are already solving: that in a world of cheap, universally accessible info, you don't have the incentive to know much of anything. When you have a library, you get to know your books - you learn what's in them."

HT to Jim

Quote of the Day: 05.07.06

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." John Maynard Keynes, quoted in today's NY Times Book Review section.

Quote of the Day: 05/02/06

"Theology is the practical art of making simple facts complex assumptions"

Quote of the Day: 04/28/06

"The next Ross Perot will be green."

From Thomas Friedman's NY Times editorial entitled, Gas Pump Geopolitics (sub. req.)