Monday, August 20, 2007

Whom Would You Be

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
-Coco Chanel
(borrowed from http://blog.mccutcheonweb.com/)

Friday, August 10, 2007

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Political Science

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his listeners of his own assertions.
-Plato - Dialogues, Phaedo

Take a Left Please

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-Robert Frost

The Black Box in the Nursery

When HAL 9000 calmly informed Dave Bowman that the mission was too important to allow human interference, Arthur C. Clarke wasn’t merely pre...