"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

'An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.'
Repoman

“You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘Nam’ of course.”
Walter Sobchak

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson

"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
Stephen King

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

"You will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of your training."
US Army

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
Fred Allen

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'I am a Doctor, not a Bricklayer'
Doctor McCoy

'A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.'
Segal's Law

'In command and out of control.'
US Army

'It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.'
Abraham Lincoln

'If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.'
George S. Patton

'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'
Lewis Carroll

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
A. J. Liebling

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
William Gibson

Date: Tue. 09-13-09
Time: 5:48 pm
Location: Ikea Red Hook
Model: Nikon D50
Exposure Time: 1/250
F Number: 4
Focal Length: 20 mm

Title: Untitled 38
App: Brushes on iPad
Date: 2010-08-19