{"id":295,"date":"2008-08-10T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=295"},"modified":"2008-08-10T05:45:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:45:06","slug":"random-quotes-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/random-quotes-1","title":{"rendered":"Random Quotes &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some random quotes that I collected from the web:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Reflecting on the misinformation, half-truths, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Weasel word\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weasel_word\">weasel-words<\/a> that form the  bulk of political-campaign speecifying, I conclude that <span>listening to politicians&#8217; campaign  speeches yields about as much information as listening to insects buzzing: in  both cases you&#8217;re made aware that annoying, and possibly dangerous, pests are  nearby.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.typepad.com\/hayek\/2008\/03\/whats-the-buzz.html\">Cafe Hayek<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Faith is Hope given too much credit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Matt Tuozzo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2008\/03\/rationality-quo.html\">Overcoming Bias<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"NBC Universal\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuni.com\/\">NBC Universal<\/a>, which is trying to block a public bike path from traversing its property along the waterway&#8230;<br \/>\nOne bike advocate said Universal executives told him they feared that people would use the path to lob unsolicited screenplays onto the studio&#8217;s nearby production lot &#8212; something that apparently happens at other spots when a Universal film scores big at the box office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/28\/nbc-opposing-la-bike.html\">boing-boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Persistence isn&#8217;t using the same tactics over and over. That&#8217;s just annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Persistence is having the same goal over and over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/%7Er\/typepad\/sethsmainblog\/%7E3\/251349172\/persistence.html\">Seth Godin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual, the pragmatists are right in practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2008\/03\/17.html\">Joel on Software<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>In a relationship, you are not meant to make someone else happy; you want to be happy *with* that someone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/lage-raho\/\">Solitary Dreamer (3rd comment)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/50d0a2e6-dcb7-4ec6-b1ea-ab7f3a1289d4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=50d0a2e6-dcb7-4ec6-b1ea-ab7f3a1289d4\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; campaign speeches yields about as much information as listening to insects buzzing: in both cases you&#8217;re made aware that annoying, and possibly dangerous, pests are nearby. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/random-quotes-1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Quotes &#8211; 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}