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
