FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Gandhi
LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus:
_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
_Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds;
therefore --
_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.
“How complex or simple a structure is depends critically on the way in which we describe it”
Herbert Simon
Man's main task in life
is to give birth
to himself,
to become what he
potentially is.
ERICH FROMM
“The unreasonable thing about otherwise reasonable people is that they don’t know how to sort out what someone is saying when he’s not really put it as precisely as he should have done.”
Goethe
Maxims and Reflections
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Dr. Robert Schuller
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
