February 2009
January 2009
Zimbabwe abandons its currency →
When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized...
– Emo Phillips
We don’t need help. We are not invalids. We don’t have limited...
– Reply from Vladimir Putin, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, on 1-28-09, when Michael Dell asked how could we help expand IT in Russia.
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
– Elbert Hubbard
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,...
– John Adams
The right people don’t need to be managed. The moment you feel the need to...
– Jim Collins, January 22, 2009
After “Mad”, drugs were nothing.
– Patti Smith
It’s much harder to make something simple than complicated.
– Phil Bredesen
The other day a woman came up to me and said, “Didn’t I see you on...
– Emo Phillips
Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to... →
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? ...
– Mark Twain
If you feed the bear he will eat you last.
– Russian proverb
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather...
– Emo Phillips
At the end of the year, we saw some light at the end of the tunnel. ...
– Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Jefferies & Company, Jan. 20, 2009, N Y Times.
…the entire financial industry is in the midst of a makeover. And while no...
– Gretchen Morgenson, January 18, 2009
Even the monkey can fall from the tree.
– Chinese saying
Remember, the avalanche, it does not know you are an expert.
– Swiss avalanche expert Andre Roch