Quote of the Day — William F. Buckley
“I’m not going to insult your intelligence by suggesting that you believe what you just said.”
June 16th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
The first rule of pessimism: it can always get worse.
May 26th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the day — Charles H. Spurgeon
A “post turtle” is a turtle resting atop a fence post. The turtle didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong there, he can’t get anything done while he’s up there and you just want to help the poor, dumb thing down.
Kind of describes our current president, doesn’t it?
May 12th, 2016 | Category: Education | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Mike Rowe
“Just because you love something doesn’t mean you can’t suck at it.”
Source: The Four Hour Workweek
May 5th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Thomas Sowell
May 3rd, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
“True optimist: A blind man who enters a dark room looking for a black cat that he knows isn’t there.”
April 18th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
More performance evaluations
“He has a photographic memory with the lens cap glued on.”
“Has two brains cells: one is lost and the other is out looking for it”
“Some drank from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.”
April 5th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Dr. Ben Carson
“I believe I came from God, and you believe you came from a monkey, and you’ve convinced me you’re right.”
March 31st, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
“The long run is always shorter than we imagine.”
From: Seth’s Blog
March 25th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
From: Crossderry Blog
March 4th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Peter Drucker
March 2nd, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Arnold Ahlert: Who speaks for us?
As the opening of the Constitution states, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”
“We the people” is us, not a bunch of self-interested politicians and their well connected benefactors. A “more perfect” union is an aspiration. We must not allow our pursuit of that perfection to be the enemy of our goodness. Same goes for establishing justice and insuring domestic tranquility.
As for the next two items, it’s important to note the critical distinction between providing for the commence defense and promoting the general welfare. It is the government’s constitutionally mandated duty to provide protection for the nation. It is not the government’s duty to provide for the peoples’ welfare, but rather to promote the conditions that allow a free people to provide for their own welfare, that of their families and those Americans who are truly in need.
From: Patriot Post
March 1st, 2016 | Category: Interesting Articles | Comments are closed
“You don’t need to be motivated all the time…just at the right time.”
February 22nd, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Thought of the Day — George Pólya
Examine your guess. Your guess may be right, but it is foolish to accept a vivid guess as a proven truth — as primitive people often do. Your guess may be wrong. But it is also foolish to disregard a vivid guess altogether — as pedantic people sometimes do. Guesses of a certain kind deserve to be examined and taken seriously: those which occur to us after we have attentively considered and really understood a problem in which we are genuinely interested. Such guesses usually contain at least a fragment of the truth although, of course, they very seldom show the whole truth. Yet there is a chance to extract the whole truth if we examine such a guess appropriately.
Many a guess has turned out to be wrong but nevertheless useful in leading to a better one.
No idea is really bad, unless we are uncritical. What is really bad is to have no idea at all.
From: Observational Epidemiology
February 5th, 2016 | Category: Interesting Articles, Research, Statistics | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — John Maynard Keynes
January 19th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Steve Howell
From: Leica Birding Blog
January 4th, 2016 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Richard Feynman
December 29th, 2015 | Category: Quotes | Comments are closed
Quote of the Day — Alan Sokol
December 29th, 2015 | Category: Quotes, Research, Writing | Comments are closed