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Some cyber sphere projections:

"As the Internet reduces friction, companies will learn that there are only two kinds of competitive advantage: those that are based on offering customers something truly wonderful and unique, and those that aren't. Weak or ignorant customers, high search costs, local monopolies, forced tie-ins, and price discrimination are of the second variety. The Internet will render them worthless." -- Gary Hamel, Chairman, Strategos, Inc., Wallstreet Journal, Tuesday, June 6, 2000.

"... the net is the collective interaction spun off by a trillion objects and living beings, linked together through air and glass....The whole shebang won't happen tomorrow, but the trajectory is clear. We are connecting all to all." --Kevin Kelly, Wired's executive editor, Wired, September 1997.

Previous Entries in Thoughts and Quotes of The Week

• "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." --Joubert
• "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens." --Rilke
• "Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one." --Gracian
• "Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation." --Thomas Dewar
• "If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable." --Georges Courteline
• "There are some faults which bear witness to a good character more clearly than some virtues." --Cardinal De Retz
• "We do what we can and then make a theory to prove our performance the best." --Emerson
• "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." --Henry David Thoreau
• "It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward."-- Andre Gide.
• "True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing."-- Humphreys.
• "The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities."-- Ruskin.
• "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears."-- La Rouchefoucauld.
• "The more sand has escaped from the hour-glass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."-- Richter.
• "We must always have old memories and young hopes."--Arsene Houssaye.
• "The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."--Eden Phillpotts, courtesy of A.Word.A.Day at http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/.
• "Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself."--Tryon Edwards.
• "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."--Moliere.
• "Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."--Ben Johnson, 1640.
• "When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. "--Terence, 166 B.C.
• "We should not ask who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. "--Montaigne.
• "Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. "--Aldous Huxley
• "One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. "--Voltaire
• "When we are out of sympathy with the young, then our work in this world is over. "--G. Macdonald
• "How many fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old. "--Stanislaus
• ".... all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot sit quietly in their own chamber. "--Pascal
• "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. "--Seneca
• "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. "--H.D. Thoreau
• "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. "--Bradley Millar (by way of anu@wordsmith.org)
• "Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection."--Pindar.
• "When you give, give with joy and smiling."--Joubert.
• "What has become of all the child wonders we used to know in school?"--Frank Hubbard.
• "There are three things the public will always clamor for sooner or later, namely, novelty, novelty, novelty."--Thomas Hood, 1799-1845. Old advice is often good advice:
• "He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker; if weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare theyself."--Seneca.
• "Everytime you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."--Mark Twain, speech, 11/23/1900.
• "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."--Charles W. Eliot, 1910.
• "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."--Jean Paul Richter, 1803.
• "Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."--H. L. Mencken, 1916.
• "When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful."--Pierre Nicole, 17th century.
• "We need a reason for speaking, we need none for keeping silent."--Pierre Nicole.
• "The best memories are those which we have forgotten."--Alfred Capus.
• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• " Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."--Samuel Johnson, 1759.
• " It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."--Disraeli, 1860
• "Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."--Menander, 300 B.C.
• "Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."--Samuel Johnson, 1775
• "The only thing we can never know is how to know how to ignore what we can never know."--Rousseau, 1762.
• "There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place."--Washington Irving
• "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."--Katherine Whitehorn
• "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet."--Norton Juster
• "Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted."--Bei Dao
• "Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."--Joseph Roux
• "We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happen to us."--Eric Hoffer
• "There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world."--Albert Sorel.
• "A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't."--Romain Rolland
• "Thinking is hard work. You can't simultaneously carry burdens and have ideas."--Remy De Gourmont
• "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in teriffic bills."--Minna Antrim.
• "Children need models rather than critics."--De Talleyrand-Perigord.
• "There are many people who do not know how to waste time alone; they are the scourge of busy people."--Louis Gabriel Ambroise.
• "You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."--Bernard Berenson.
• "Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so."--La Rochefoucauld.
• "Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."--T. S. Eliot.
• "When we are sighing for the loss of our past youth, which will return no more, let us reflect that decrepitude will come, when we shall regret the mature age we have now reached and do not sufficiently value."--La Bruyere, 17th century.
• "We make promises to the extent that we hope, and keep them to the extent that we fear."--La Rochefoucauld.
• "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."--Sandra Carey.
• "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."--J. K. Galbraith
• "It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the word to you."--Mark Twain
• "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."--Alfred Adler
• "If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing."--Chesterton
• "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."--Unknown
• "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."--Don Marquis
• "Though time changes people, it does not alter the image we have kept of them."--Proust
• "A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog."--E. N. Westcott
• "I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."--S. Leacock.
• "It is not failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."--Confucius.
• "Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me."--Anatole France.
• "Half the world does not know how the other half lives, but is trying to find out."--Edgar Howe.
• "There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home."--Mark Twain.
• "Those not present are always in the wrong."--Philippe Nericault (1717). "Les absents ont toujours tort."
• "In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used frequently to take my advice."--Winston Churchill.
• "The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."--Robert Frost.
• "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."--Emerson.
• "It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different."--Christian Morgenstern.
• "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."--George Orwell. Some Advice on Advice:
• "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."--Chesterfield.
• "Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it."--Publius Syrus.
• "Advice is like snow: the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."--Coleridge.

For Father's Day, June 1996:

• "It is a wise father that knows his own child."--Shakespeare.
• "The child is father of the man."--Wordsworth.
• "A father is a banker provided by nature."--Anonymous, French source.

It's graduation time! So, remember:

• "In youth we learn; in age we understand."--Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.
• "If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning."--Goethe.
• "To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely." -- Hugo von Hofmannstahl.
• "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."--Rabbinic saying.
• "A-B-C-yah!"--Painted on a senior's car window.

• "To a chemist, the thought of dirt doesn't exist."--Chekhov.
• "Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them." -- La Rochefoucauld.
• "It's hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you that you would lie if you were in his place." -- Mencken.
• "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." -- H. Munro(Saki).
• "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." -- Hegel.
• "The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you find out you're not living up to it." -- Iturbi.
• "I have made this a rather long letter since I haven't had time to make it shorter." -- Pascal.
• "In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed." -- Emerson.
• "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." -- Edith Wharton.
• "He that knows little often repeats it." -- Thomas Fuller.
• "Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done" -- said to Queen Marie-Antoinette by Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
• "Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words." -- Henri Bergson.
• "Only one person in ten thousand understands the economic situation, and we meet that person everyday." -- paraphrase of Fran McKinney Hubbard quote.
• "I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company." -- Thoreau.
• "It's very easy for us to manage our neigbor's business, but our own sometimes bothers us." -- Josh Billings.
• "There never was an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own." -- C.E.M. Joad (1951).
• "In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." -- Mark Twain.
• "The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover." -- Sir Arthur Helps.
• "To totally block a given effect requires a force equal to that which it cost. To send it in a different direction, a trifle will often suffice." -- Lichtenberg.
• "We all have the same eight notes to work with." -- Sir Arthur Sullivan.
• "We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects." -- Goethe.
• "Dogma does not mean the absence of thought but the end of thought." -- Chesterton.
• "We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it." -- Bion, 3rd century bc
• "Tell me what you think you are and I will tell you what you are not." -- Amiel.
• "We never repent having spoken too little, but very often having spoken too much." --- Philippe de Commynes.
• "We often forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore." - La Rochefoucauld.
• "The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first." -- Pascal.
• "We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others." -- Pascal.
• "We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves." -- Vauvenargues.
• "Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." -- Dandemis (by way of anu.@wordsmith.org)
• "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." -- Kierkegaard.
• "He was not made for climbing the tree of knowledge." -- Sigrid Undset.
• "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all; the conscientious historian will correct these defects." -- Herodotus
• "The politicians were talking themselves red, white, and blue in the face." -- Clare Boothe Luce.
• "When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him." -- Josh Billings.
• "If a man ain't got a well-balanced head, I like to see him part his hair in the middle." -- Josh Billings.
• "A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us." -- Pascal.
• "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." -- M. Curie.
• "In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman." -- M. Thatcher.
• "I suppose you could never prove to the mind of the most ingenious mollusk that such a creature as a whale was possible." -- Emerson.
• "The more you say, the less people remember." -- Francois Fenelon.
• "May my book teach you to be concerned more with yourself than with it - and then with everything more than with yourself." -- A. Gide.
• "I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?" -- E. Philips.
• "Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep." -- Herrick.
• "You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminable sentence." -- Elbert Hubbard
• "When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy." -- Stanislaw Lec.
• "The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them." -- Leopardi.
• "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome." -- Dr. Johnson, 1759
• "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." -- A. Gide .
• "We are not satisfied to be right unless we can prove others to be quite wrong." -- W. Hazlitt.
• "The palest ink is better than the best memory." -- D. Liu.
• "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." -- Samuel Butler.
• "In a major matter no details are small." -- Paul de Gondi.
• "I know at last what distinguishes man from animals: financial worries." -- Romain Rolland.
• "When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere." -- Mac Orlan.
• "To teach is to learn twice." -- Joubert.
• "In each of us there is a little of all of us." -- Lichtenberg.
• "Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?" -- La Rouchefoucauld.
• "There are people who think everything one does with a serious face is sensible." -- Lichtenberg.
• "There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace." -- Cicero
• "Farewell! But not for ever."-- Cowper December 1995, School's Out!
• "See you all in January!"-- Bruggink
• "If all the year were playing holidays,
  To sport would be as tedious as to work." -- Shakespeare
• "The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." -- Emerson
• "Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read the day before." -- Chamfort
• "Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads." - Holmes.
• "Too many fads palmed off for educational methods now usurp the place of stunning, knock-down, intelligent facts."
  Year of Quote: 1898. From notes of convention of 22 county superintendents in 1898 in Monticello, Florida. Book citation: p.31, History of the Florida Education Association, 1886-87 to 1956-57. Published by the Florida Education Association, Tallahassee, 1958.
• "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain.
• "Remember, the fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly swatter."- Georg Lichtenberg

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