January 2012
7 posts
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth...”
– Bob Marley
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss
“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a...”
– Jean Paul Richter
“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
– Voltaire
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.”
– Emma Goldman
“You pour a beer, lay a woman, and place concrete.”
“There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each...”
– Mark Twain
December 2011
2 posts
“We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose...”
– Robert Fulghum
November 2011
2 posts
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting...”
– Steve Jobs
October 2011
2 posts
“One man with courage is a majority.”
September 2011
3 posts
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall...”
– Greek proverb
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham
August 2011
2 posts
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s....”
– Nelson Algren’s “Three rules of life” from A Walk on the Wild Side
“I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”
– Clint Eastwood
July 2011
3 posts
“I refuse to enter into a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I’ve been called worse things by better people.”
– Pierre Trudeau
June 2011
4 posts
“If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!”
– Charles Barkley
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind...”
– Henry Ford
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
– Latin Proverb
May 2011
4 posts
callipygous →
Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.
“An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without...”
– Themistocles
“I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise...”
– Themistocles
April 2011
5 posts
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and...”
– Dr. Seuss
“Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the...”
– J. Willard Marriott
“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow....”
– Cornelius Vanderbilt
Dunning–Kruger effect →
is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory...
March 2011
5 posts
“I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I...”
– Mickey Rivers
douceur de vivre →
The sweetness of life
February 2011
3 posts
Carry The Day
to be successful; to win a competition, argument, etc. Originally meaning to win a battle.
To Whom It May Concern,
I was issued a parking ticket in error when I was parked in your fine city and had paid with your Parkmobile service through my iPhone. I believe the error was caused by the fact that my license plate is Indiana ND#### (redacted) and you awarded the ticket to Indiana #### (redacted) (No ND). I have called and spoken with Parkmobile and they agreed with the error but they said the only possible way...
“There are old divers and there are bold divers, but there are no old, bold...”
– A saying among commercial deep-sea divers. From Living Loaded by Dan Dunn
January 2011
3 posts
Otaku →
is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests.
“Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company’s name on it. Somewhere...”
– Gary Hamel
Rapprochement →
The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.
December 2010
5 posts
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”
– Bob Dylan
Bon vivant →
A person with refined taste, especially one who enjoys superb food and drink
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough...”
– Leonard Bernstein
