“I go to the pantomime only at Christmas.”
💬 W.S. Gilbert
… on being asked if he had seen Sir Henry Irving in Faust.
“I go to the pantomime only at Christmas.”
💬 W.S. Gilbert
… on being asked if he had seen Sir Henry Irving in Faust.
“Men only learn from history how to make new mistakes.”
💬 A.J.P. Taylor
”Create an environment that tolerates misfits, rewards actual creative behaviors, and embraces people following their own interests. Companies that don’t will suffer the fate of Ford, IBM, and the other former giants that focused on short-term efficiency at the cost of long-term innovation.”
Stowe Boyd
(I think)
”If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
John von Neumann
“It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
Aldous Huxley
Dave Winer over on Scripting …
“I am an American, nothing is going to change that, but if you asked me do I feel this is the greatest country ever, I’d say that’s an idea we have to …
”My idea of a good picture is one that is in focus.”
💬Andy Warhol
”Never express yourself more clearly than you think”
💬 Niels Bohr.
”My considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Ulysses may, therefore, be admitted to the United States.”
💬 John M. Woolsey