Light plus Weighty
What the wise see …
An MBA and a Farm Hand go on a camp trip, set up their tent and go to sleep.
Couple hours later, the Farm Hand wakes up the MBA and asks, “Look up and tell me what you see?”
The MBA looks up, ponders and replies, “I see millions of stars. It tells me that there are millions [...]
Benjamin Disraeli … the liberal PM …
Success is the child of audacity. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain [...]
M*A*S*H … Alan Alda … & History…
M*A*S*H is an American television series adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker).
The series is a medical drama/black comedy that follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea, during [...]
Pablo Picasso …
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Action is the foundational key to all success.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do [...]
James Thurber’s Pointers …
All men kill the thing they hate; unless, of course, it kills them first.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in [...]
Thoughts and Destiny
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Author Unknown
Omar Khayyam’s couplets …
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
One Moment in Annihilation’s Waste,
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste–
The Stars are setting and the Caravan
Starts for the Dawn of [...]
From a Neurotic’s Notebook …
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them but important to friendship that we are not.
Courage cannot see around corners but still goes around them.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned and nights left to chance.
Einstein considered compound interest as the most powerful force in the [...]
Netscape’s Three Rules
We have 3 rules at Netscape:
1. The first rule is if you see a snake, don’t call committees, don’t call your buddies, don’t form a team, don’t get a meeting together, just kill the snake.
2. The second rule is don’t go back and play with dead snakes. Too many people waste too much time on [...]
Thirteen Virtues – Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin sought to cultivate his character by a plan of thirteen (13)virtues, which he developed at age 20 (in 1726) and continued to practice in some form for the rest of his life. His autobiography lists his thirteen virtues as:
1. “TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.”
2. “SILENCE. Speak not but what [...]
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