Quote of the day: The power of “Huh?”
Published October 12th, 2008“In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’”– Michael Hawley, a computer scientist and director of SiOnyx, quoted in the NY Times, 10/12/08
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Quote of the day: Coffee, tea, or Slim Jim?
Published September 14th, 2008If you’re a frequent traveler, you should read Michelle Higgins’s firsthand account in today’s NY Times of what it’s like to be flight attendant. On the difference between air travel in the glamour days of the 1960s and air travel today, one three-decade flight attendant veteran says:“Who would have thought, after 30 years, that we’d be a [...]
Quotes of the day
Published September 10th, 2008At a conference yesterday, I got a chance to hear business guru John Maxwell talk about leadership and geopolitical rock star Tom Friedman talk about his new book. Both presentations were excellent. Here’s a quote of note from each.Maxwell described the many leaders in business and government who lament how lonely it is at the top. Then he [...]
Quote (and art project) of the day
Published September 2nd, 2008“RISD is MIT for the right brain.”– John Maeda, incoming president of the Rhode Island School of DesignThe quote is from a great WSJ profile of the super-innovative Maeda. Check out the WSJ writer’s description of what Maeda is doing for his presidential inauguration:“On the day I visit, an assistant in his office is folding hundreds of 15-inch squares [...]
Quotes of the day: Paging Dr. Bunko edition
Published July 26th, 2008“Comics are a low-cost laboratory, with instant feedback, for what’s happening in pop culture.”– Milton Griepp, publisher of ICv2 (via USA Today)“Today critical consensus is that anyone who categorically does not read comics will miss great literature.”– Jeremy Smith, writing in The Chicago Tribune
Quote of the day: Accomplishment before adulation
Published June 16th, 2008“You know, sometimes I’ll go to an eighth-grade graduation and there’s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I’ll think to myself, it’s just eighth grade. . . . Let’s just give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!”– Barack Obama, Father’s Day Speech, 6/15/08
Robert Rauschenberg
Published May 13th, 2008When I arrived in Heathrow tonight, one of the first emails I noticed on my phone was a news alert from the New York Times: ”Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82.” A sad day. I’m a huge Rauschenberg fan — as much for the way he lived his life as for the [...]
Quote of the day: As go insects, so go humans
Published April 16th, 2008“Female fruit flies sometimes choose males who win fights, sometimes choose males who do not fight, and sometimes choose males for no obvious reason.” (Source: PLoS via Eureka Alert)
Quote of the day: Utopia on the Wilde side
Published April 1st, 2008(Photo taken at a Corcoran exhibit last year and just discovered when I transfered some data to a new computer)
Quote of the Day: A Bentley, not a Rolls
Published March 30th, 2008Incoming Bentley College president Gloria Cordes Larson says she wants her graduates to “be ethically grounded leaders who combine left brain analysis and business process skills with right brain qualities of creativity, empathy, and an appreciation for other perspectives.” (Source: Boston Globe, 3/29/08)