I void warranties --- seen on a
T-shirt at Burning Man 2008
I can resist everything...except temptation
--- Oscar Wilde
Discipline is remembering what you want
--- David Campbell
Before
Enlightenment - chop wood, carry water;
after
Enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
--- Old Zen saying
The best way to predict the future is to
invent it---Alan Kay
The future is here. It's just not widely
distributed yet---William
Gibson
Imagination
is more important
than knowledge --- Albert Einstein
Judge a man by his questions rather than
his answers --- Voltaire
...engage the impossible... --- Erik
Larson
I
have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as
my
telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how
to use my
telephone. --- Bjarne
Stroustrup
I'm busier than a one-legged cowboy in an
ass-kickin' contest ---
???
The time to relax is when you don't have
time for it. --- Sydney
J. Harris
Why tweet when you can SPAM? ---
yours truly, in the style of
Zippy the
Pinhead
I've been having a mid-life crisis for a
long time. So long, in
fact, that my mid-life crisis is having a mid-life crisis. ---
yours
truly
I used to have three theories about how to
raise kids; now I have
three kids and no theories! --- my mom
Your
children
are not your children,
They come through you but are not from you...
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
--- Selected lines from The Prophet
To seize
the day,
find the sunset in the sunset
the laughter in the child
and
the child within yourself.
--- yours truly
If God existed, He would have
certainly not permitted that human beings
be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be
smashed with the butt of guns or be shoved into sacks and gassed to
death. --- Rutka Laskier, 1943 (the "Polish Anne Frank")
We shall
not cease from exploration,
and the end
of all our exploring will be to arrive
where we started and know the place for the first
time.
-T.S.Eliot
Had I really
succeeded at anything else, I
might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I
believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had
already been realised, and I was still alive…and
so rock bottom became
the
solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
---J. K. Rowling,
Harvard commencement 2008
My father has published a thoughtful
treatise on a Muscular,
Moral Foreign Policy.
My
brother Michael
died of sudden heart failure on August 24th, 2006; he is survived
by his wife, son, and daughter.
I went to China in June, 2004 with my brother Ethan, and this is as close as I got to
the Great Wall. I did get
close to a Baby Panda, and learned
something about Chinese People. I also visited the Forbidden City, which was a bit
disappointing. In August 2008, I participated in Burning
Man---my Burn pictures & other personal information is available on
Facebook.
