Thursday, July 31, 2003
Saki

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."

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Miss Piggy

"Never eat more than you can lift."

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 Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Franklin P. Adams

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

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Alan Kay

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

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 Monday, July 28, 2003
Galileo Galilei

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

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 Saturday, July 26, 2003
Krishnamurti

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

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Chris Pirillo... "Gnomedex is gonna be the most blogged conference... ever." [The Scobleizer Weblog
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The coming wonderworld - Technorati: Christopher Lydon in introducing his interview with Dave Sifry: "Technorati is for me the simplest clearest sketch we have of the coming wonderworld..." [Corante: Corante on Blogging
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Tim Porter on Sacramento Bee political columnist Dan Weintraub's newly launched California Insider: "Good move by Weintraub to move into the blogosphere. Politics should not be left to the thumbsuckers." [Corante: Corante on Blogging
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Clare Booth Luce. "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there." [Quotes of the Day
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 Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Hermann Hesse. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." [Quotes of the Day
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 Tuesday, July 22, 2003
"A lot of what we do in blogging is more like prophesy about what is going to be, than commentary on what is right now [~] at least for some of us." [The Doc Searls Weblog
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Will Durant. "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." [Quotes of the Day
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a weblog without an RSS feed.... Chad Dickerson: 
a weblog without an RSS feed is like a cheeseburger with only the bread
[Mathemagenic
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 Sunday, July 20, 2003
Dan Quayle. "The future will be better tomorrow." [Quotes of the Day
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 Friday, July 18, 2003
Abraham Lincoln. "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." [Quotes of the Day
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Arthur C. Clarke. "CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power." [Quotes of the Day
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 Wednesday, July 16, 2003
A Wordplay Blog. Here's a group blog with a twist.
Form a sentence from the acronym of the last word found on the latest post. Quirky, funny, nasty, silly, serious, whatever your post may be, the words are yours. Every correct entry gives you 1 point
(via Side Salad) Permalink Created Wed, 16 Jul 2003 [The J-Walk Blog
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And then there's this:. Steven Johnson: "The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times -- but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web's infinity of links." I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Steven Johnson is smart. That's, unfortunately, all I have time to say right now, though my brain's going a million miles on hour. [evhead
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Bulwer-Lytton contest results. The annual Bulwer-Lytton contest recognizes and awards the very worst opening sentences found in novels. The 2003 results are in (2002 results, 2001 results) and the winning entry begins "They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese..." [via girlhacker] [MetaFilter
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Wolfgang Pauli. "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." [Quotes of the Day
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 Monday, July 14, 2003
Jason Kottke: "Movable Type is the new way to do absolutely everything, BTW.... It checks my vision, does root canals, makes my travel plans, transports me back in time, and balances my checkbook. Even expensive hookers are a thing of the past with Movable Type..." [Corante: Corante on Blogging
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Adam Greenfield in his wrap-up on the moblogging conference held in Tokyo recently: "I know in my bones that the act of self-publishing material from mobile to devices to a shared global network, and retrieving similarly user-generated material, is going to be one of the defining cultural features of the next few years." [Corante: Corante on Blogging
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 Sunday, July 13, 2003
Trading on fear. Trading on fear
"But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Nazi Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering [MetaFilter
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 Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Laurence J. Peter. "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." [Quotes of the Day
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Oscar Wilde. "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." [Quotes of the Day
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Frank Zappa. "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." [Quotes of the Day
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John W. Gardner. "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." [Quotes of the Day
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Woody Allen. "Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies." [Quotes of the Day
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Sir Winston Churchill. "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." [Quotes of the Day
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Ambrose Bierce. "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles." [Quotes of the Day
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 Sunday, July 06, 2003
Napoleon Bonaparte. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." [Quotes of the Day
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 Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Lily Tomlin. "We're all in this alone." [Quotes of the Day
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Alexi Sayle. "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'...they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git'...." [Quotes of the Day
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