Cumulus

Quotes…


Edison "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

Pascal "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

Sobchak “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

Berenson "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

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

Bacon "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

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

Pascal "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

Pascal '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

Army '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

Army '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

Upstanding Citizen Snoop Speaks…

Guns = fo’shizzle?
Download’n = Not so fo’shizzle?
Guns and Coke = Call me


September 2nd, 2010 | Category: Social Comment | Leave a comment

The Crap We Put Up With…


Source: The Oatmeal


September 2nd, 2010 | Category: Social Comment | Leave a comment

Classic Jobs on Branding

Over decade ago, back in 1997 Jobs tells how he is going to bring Apple back from the brink, to the company it is today.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.


August 31st, 2010 | Category: Design, Social Comment, Tech | Leave a comment

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers

Another study that tells us almost nothing. Is it the alcohol or the type of person that decides to drink. Until we start testing only twins for a lifetime, ‘variables’ will always be present.

But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables — socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on — the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who had never been drinkers, second-highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers.

Source: Time


August 30th, 2010 | Category: Social Comment | Leave a comment

Color Motion Pictures… 1922


Made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It was another 13 years before a feature film arrived in color. This is some of the earliest color motion pictures that you will ever see.

Source: Kodak


August 27th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Comment, Video | Leave a comment

Mr. Vonnegut

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut


August 21st, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Social Comment | Leave a comment

Fear Mongers

Great Editorial:

Whenever America faces her toughest challenges, you can always count on the right to be there. Sowing hate, stoking fear. So it’s no surprise that in the midst of a great economic catastrophe, the right would search for scapegoats instead of answers. And so we have the fabricated crisis of the “Mosque at Ground Zero.”

Leave aside the fact that it’s not a mosque and it’s not at Ground Zero. This is really about hate and fear, the right’s old friends.

For the last 45 years, at least, no matter who the Republican candidate has been, hate and fear were really at the top of the ticket.

Recall that in 1968, Richard Nixon won the presidency by stoking fear of Negroes and hippies. The vaunted Southern Strategy of the Republican Party was at its core a campaign of fear. What a ride it’s had.

It’s no longer fashionable to be officially afraid of blacks, but there is no shortage of substitutes. Who is the right afraid of now?

Source: Market Watch


August 20th, 2010 | Category: Comment | Leave a comment
 
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