must travel light...
He who would travel happily must travel light.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1944)
3 times per second...
"Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection…"
- Nate Silver, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight
- Nate Silver, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight
Greater than kindness
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (28 Jun 1712-1778)
how close they're...
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison
- Thomas A. Edison
forget to tell...
People change and forget to tell each other.
-Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)
-Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)
Give it a meaning...
Life has no meaning a priori. ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
Follw & Accept
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- Henry Miller
- Henry Miller
For Support or ...
"An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination."
- Andrew Lang
- Andrew Lang
Focus to see...
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis
- Aristotle Onassis
Story telling - an art!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
Finally a twist in the end....
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mice ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The rest escaped with minor injuries.
The mice ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The rest escaped with minor injuries.
Hard to Count
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
...central nervous system
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
-Ingrid Newkirk, animal rights activist (b. 11 Jul 1949)
Unless...going down
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasow
- Arnold H. Glasow
Drive from the top...
"Bringing literacy of advanced analytics across the broader community, starting with the senior management.... is clearly something that has to be driven from the top. It needs cultural change."
- Colin Lenaghan, global senior vice president for net revenue management at PepsiCo, in the latest Me, Myself, and AI podcast episode, "No Need for AI Unicorns"
- Colin Lenaghan, global senior vice president for net revenue management at PepsiCo, in the latest Me, Myself, and AI podcast episode, "No Need for AI Unicorns"
The Atlantic: Winners of the 2021 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
Some of the winning images from this year's contest, showcasing the natural world
Read this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/06/winners-2021-bigpicture-natural-world-photography-competition/619063/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share
Read this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/06/winners-2021-bigpicture-natural-world-photography-competition/619063/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share
Have to go to...
"You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
- Winnie the Pooh
Departure from convention
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician (1872-1970)
- Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician (1872-1970)
Learn the difference
If you break your neck,
if you have nothing to eat,
if your house is on fire,
then you've got a problem.
Everything else is an inconvenience.
Life is inconvenient.
Life is lumpy.
A lump in the oatmeal,
a lump in the throat,
and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump.
One needs to learn the difference.
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
Learn the difference...
If you break your neck,
if you have nothing to eat,
if your house is on fire,
then you've got a problem.
Everything else is an inconvenience.
Life is inconvenient.
Life is lumpy.
A lump in the oatmeal,
a lump in the throat,
and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump.
One needs to learn the difference.
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
..the wat they are
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht
..much too short
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
- Martina Navratilova, Czech/US tennis player (b.1956)
Sorriest things
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
-Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (1840-1928)
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