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*Random quotes*

Interesting and/or pithy observations I've gathered, in no particular order

prepare "In human endeavor, chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

prepare "The more I practice, the luckier I get." -- Tiger Woods

problems "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein

prepare Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Ancient Japanese Proverb

prepare Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

cosmic "With every passing hour our solar system comes forty three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress." - ransom k. fern

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." -- Gandhi

"There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein

"When a man, great in knowledge of the Torah and reputed for his piety, does things which cause people to talk disparagingly about him, even if the acts are not express violations, he profanes the Name of God." (Rambam, Mishna Torah, Basic Torah Laws, 5:11).

Torah sage to have lived after the biblical period, wrote a letter to his student, Yosef ben-Yehudah ibn-Sham'un. One paragraph in that letter is very relevant to what is happening in our midst today. Rambam wrote: "You find it difficult that he (the Rosh Yeshivah in Baghdad) has unleashed his tongue against you.... There was no need for you to ask, 'What about fear of heaven?' For great people like him, fear of heaven means avoiding the more gross sins as the general public sees them, but they do not think that moral rectitude is one of our religious duties, nor are they as careful as regards what they say as the truly God-fearing are. Most clerics in a position of power lose all fear of heaven when something affects their hold on power."

"I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult." -- E. B. White

"What lies behind us and What lies before us are tiny matters When compared to What lies Within Us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Anything you can do or dream..., begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, providence moves too...Things occur...that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising...all manner of unforeseen incidents...and material assistance, which no man could have (foreseen). - WH Murray

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious." - A. Einstein

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. - Buckminster Fuller

Do I contradict myself? Well, then, I contradict myself. I am vast. I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman

"It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

The MacOS will always be my primary and favorite OS; Windows is a "thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit micro-processor written by a two bit company that couldn't stand one bit of competition." -- Douglas R Jacobson

"Do not undertake a program unless the goal is manifestly important and the achievement nearly impossible." - Edwin Land

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo

ÐDeath is only one of many ways to lose your life.[per thou] - Alvah Simon, North to the Night

"In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few." - Suzuki Roshi

"Different isn't always better. But better is always different." - Marshall Thurber

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. -- James Dean

It's not enough to get to the future first; one must also get there for less. -- Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahadad, Competing for the Future