The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
From The Ladder of St. Augustine (follow link to read complete poem)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Entry 2
The Lonely Pine by George Inness (Great American landscape artist, 1825-1894).
Currently located at the Detroit Institute of Art
Entry 3
I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Entry 4
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman - US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
WHO is trying to win votes from localivores with the DIA reference? cheap. and crafty.
ReplyDeleteI like the "plans" one and also the 10^11 stars since it's got that joke about the economy. I think though that I'm a big fan of you have to do your "homework" even though sometimes it doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteI like the 10^11 stars too. It seems fitting...
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