My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.
Category Archives Quotes & Toasts
Soul Vs. Meat
6/5/2008 – 2:00 pm
How it Works
11/29/2007 – 9:09 am
People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it…
Fearful Men
11/13/2007 – 9:09 am
“The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our…
Nonconformists
1/26/2006 – 8:53 am
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
Bill Vaughan
People are always blaming their circumstances…
12/12/2005 – 5:12 pm
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t…
Progress isn’t made by early risers
8/12/2005 – 2:10 pm
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
Robert Heinlein
Millions long for immortality…
12/29/2004 – 9:39 am
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Susan Ertz
The most valuable result of all education
12/23/2004 – 9:56 am
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Thomas H. Huxley
In a Democracy…
11/4/2004 – 10:24 am
“In a Democracy, people get the kind of government they deserve.”
Winston Churchill
To be pleased with one’s limits…
10/26/2004 – 12:00 pm
“To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe