Showing posts with label Advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advice. Show all posts

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Well Meaning

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,well meaning but without understanding - Louis D. Brandeis

Friday, September 14, 2012

Just Imagine

 "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
 - Albert Einstein

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Dangerous People

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein

Monday, April 9, 2012

Slavery

"There are two ways to enslave a country, one is by sword the other is by
debt." John Adams

Friday, November 18, 2011

Harmful

Like the well-meaning, a warm wind often blows harm disguised.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Think

Instead of teaching people what they should think, just teach them to think for themselves.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

How Many Times Must You Be Told

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Examples

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer

Monday, May 23, 2011

Just Think

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Stormo Algorithm

If it can't be cleaned up after with a couple disposable paper towels; then reassess its relative functional importance.

If it still can't be cleaned up with paper towels; then abandon the function.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

No Debate

"It is better to debate a question without settling it
than to settle a question without debating it."
- Joseph Joubert

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Who Watches

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-Roman poet, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, know in English as Juvenal

which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Work Reward

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
-Henry Ford

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Truly Poor

Who are the truly poor, and who chooses to act poorly?

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Wrong Cure

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
-Henry Ford

Health

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-Mark Twain

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Help People

Help people that need it a little; when you help too much, you hurt a lot.

Poverty

Ignorance causes poverty; provide more knowledge, not more money.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

An Original

"You're born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Leadership

"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."
- Dwight Eisenhower