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• When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters

  Bruce Mau, Massive Change

• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve…

  Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

• Beer has food value But food has no beer value unknown
• There is a yawning gap between information and understanding unknown
• One should use data the way a drunk uses a lamp post: For support, but NOT for illumination.

  Vin Scully

• The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies

  Stephen Hawking

• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.

  R. Feynman

• Science will continue to surprise us with what it discovers and creates; then it will astound us by devising new methods to surprise us. At the core of science's self-modification is technology. New tools enable new structures of knowledge and new…

  Kevin Kelly

• People (and, arguably, other animals as well) trying to obtain a desired outcome that occurs independently of their behavior tend to believe that they are causing the outcome.

  M. Crislip

• [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  Albert. Einstein

• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

  Albert Einstein

• 0. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 0. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light. 0. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. 0. When you meet with…

  Bertrand Russell, 1951

• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo DiVinci

• You cannot manage what you cannot measure.

  William Hewlett

• When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

• Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs forever to the past.

  Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

• The Five A’s to relationship: Attention, Appreciation, Affection, Acceptance and Allowing

  anonymous

• Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People

  Henry Thomas Buckle 1901

• Notes on the Sacred Art of Log Sitting •Approach the log cautiously with proper reverence as if you were entering a French cathedral or the bedroom of your lover. •If it’s over 60 degrees, inspect the lower side of the log for Mohave…

  Jim Harrison

• The beast is actively interested only in now, and, as it is always now and always shall be, there is an eternity of time for the accomplishment of objects.

  the wisdom of Tarzan