Posted in quote for the week, tagged government, Milton Friedman, quote on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand”
-Milton Friedman.
Posted in quote for the week, tagged age, belief, convictions, fitzgerald, ideology, life, mind, quote, thoughts, youth on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in sports, tagged federer, quote, safin, tennis on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m playing semifinals, but that doesn’t mean that I have a chance there, because the guy has won how many times already here? To beat Federer you need to be Nadal and run around like a rabbit and hit winners from all over the place. … It’s just a little bit too difficult.
-Marat Safin, ahead [...]
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged movie, beauty, andrew sullivan, quote, art, film, aesthetics, wall-e, pixar, civilization, future on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t had time to watch Wall-E yet though I am sure it is fabulous; I absolutely loved Cars and Ratatouille, Pixar’s last two offerings. Anyway, the following quote by Andrew Sullivan is, I feel, an eloquent statement that applies to all great art, and worth repeating.
It’s odd that a movie that predicts ecological doom can in fact make [...]
Posted in quote for the week, tagged life, memory, past, quote, romantic, sentimental, time on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
“A sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged kerry howley, obesity, public health, quote, richard carmona, ridiculous, surgeon general, terrorism, threat on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
This one is by former U.S. surgeon general Richard Carmona:
As we look to the future and where childhood obesity will be in 20 years … it is every bit as threatening to us as is the terrorist threat we face today. It is the terrorist threat from within.
Kerry Howley’s reaction to the above is funny:
I’m not [...]
Posted in quote for the week, tagged articles, finishing, gershenfeld, papers, perfection, quote, writing on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
“Good [theses, papers, books] are never finished, just abandoned.”
-Neil Gershenfeld
Posted in quote for the week, tagged ayn rand, courage, greatness, individualism, liberty, quote, rand, wynand on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.”
-Ayn Rand
Posted in libertarianism, quote for the week, tagged freedom of speech, human rights tribunal, julian porter, mark steyn, mcleans, quote on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
“Against the argument that you cannot cry fire in a crowded theatre: Oh yes you can — you must, if in your considered view there is a fire. In that case there is a duty to cry fire.”
-Julian Porter, QC, speaking in favour of free speech at a certain Kangaroo court.
Posted in India, news and links, tagged Karunanidhi, funny, quote, writing, words, bad writing on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In an interview with NDTV Karunanidhi was quizzed if his government was going to offer items like rice, cooking gas at a subsidised rate? He responded that it was unlikely since it was impossible.
Surely this requires skill. Would you ever think of saying something like that?
Here’s the link to the original article.
(Link via email from [...]
Posted in libertarianism, quote for the week, tagged freedom of expression, freedom of speech, liberty, quote, voltaire on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I disapprove of what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
- Voltaire (as paraphrased by Evelyn Beatrice Hall).
Posted in quote for the week, travel and getaways, tagged city, destination, e b white, greatness, immigrants, new york, new york city, ny, quote, search, settlers, white on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter–the city that is devoured by locusts each day [...]
Posted in quote for the week, tagged beauty, memory, nature, poem, quote, sadness, shelley, skylark, song on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Posted in people, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged albert einstein, atheism, einstein, God, human, interpretation, legends, metaphysics, physics, quote, reality, religion, science on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
An excerpt from the 1954 Albert Einstein letter that was recently sold at auction for £170,000.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) [...]
Posted in India, miscellaneous, people, politics, tagged blog, humor, aamir khan, shahrukh, obama, funny, quote, dog, israel, lie, words, twisting, cognitive dissonance, shah rukh khan on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Aamir Khan writes in his blog that the caretaker of his Panchgani house has a dog named Shahrukh. He emphasises that he had nothing to do with the naming of the dog.
I’m sitting under a tree, on the edge of a valley, approximately 5000 feet above sea level. The river Krishna flows far below us snaking its [...]
