Some random quotes that I collected from the web:
Reflecting on the misinformation, half-truths, and weasel-words that form the bulk of political-campaign speecifying, I conclude that listening to politicians’ campaign speeches yields about as much information as listening to insects buzzing: in both cases you’re made aware that annoying, and possibly dangerous, pests are nearby.
Source: Cafe Hayek
“Faith is Hope given too much credit.”
— Matt Tuozzo
Source: Overcoming Bias
NBC Universal, which is trying to block a public bike path from traversing its property along the waterway…
One bike advocate said Universal executives told him they feared that people would use the path to lob unsolicited screenplays onto the studio’s nearby production lot — something that apparently happens at other spots when a Universal film scores big at the box office.
Source: boing-boing.
Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying.
Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
Source: Seth Godin.
As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual, the pragmatists are right in practice.
Source: Joel on Software
In a relationship, you are not meant to make someone else happy; you want to be happy *with* that someone else.
Source: Solitary Dreamer (3rd comment)
Awesome quotes! I liked the ‘persistence’ one best.
And the one on politicians so apt!
Thanks Ravindra,
When I’m reading my RSS feed, I keep running into these short one- or two-liners that are not substantial enough to warrant a blog post by themselves, but yet are insightful enough that they cannot be ignored. Hence hit upon this idea of collecting them together into “random quotes” posts.