"People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want."
-Thomas Sowell

Milestones and Transitions

"Don't cry because it is over -- smile that it happened."
-Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Prior to Adam Smith, it was firmly believed that only a shared, top-down vision of the public good would hold society together. The idea that a much more robust order could be achieved by each person pursuing his private interests was literally inconceivable."
-Robert Godwin

"Men and women are clearly built very differently--cognitively, emotionally, even spiritually. To me, this is an utterly banal observation. But that is not what is taught in our institutes of higher learning. Rather, they teach the superstitious and mythological nonsense that men and women are identical. As such, this inevitably leads to misunderstanding and frustration."
-Robert Godwin

"The time allotted to us is analogous to the shutter of a camera; it opens with our birth, allowing in the small amount of light we must work with before it closes and the universe vanishes. With that light we must enter our "dark room" and develop our conception of existence--what we are, why we are here, and what is our relationship to the whole. There are [artifacts] laying around that others have left behind--scripture, books, images and institutions. Some of them were successful in capturing the Light, others only darkness visible."
-Robert Godwin

"It’s hard to imagine what it would mean to be a human without history, and yet, historical consciousness is something that only [recently] developed within history. ...For the Jews invented history as we know it. They were the first to rise above the stream of time, and view history as having a definitive direction. ...Only with the Hebrew approach to history did mankind begin to discern a “direction” in history, and with it, a sense of history’s purpose. That is, for the first time, history was seen as trying to “get somewhere”."
-Robert Godwin (www.onecosmos.blogspot.com)

Zen of vi

(vi is a keyboard-based editor - no mouse needed)

"My brain is tightly wired to vim's keyboard shortcuts (some of which are quite obscure) to the point where thinking about some action in vim (deleting a word, scrolling down a line, etc.) is roughly equivalent to that action actually happening."
-unknown

"Talk slowly but think quickly."
-unknown