January 2012
8 posts
K-PAX
Prot: Why is a soap bubble round ?
Dr. Mark Powell: "Why is a soap bubble round ?"
Prot: You know, for an educated person, Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that ? A soap bubble is round because it is the most energy-efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you. On K-PAX I look like a K-PAXian.
“Why are things in the last place you look for them ? Because you stop...”
– Children’s Riddle // Don’t Make Me Think - Steve Krug’s UX Design Manual
“When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.”
– Zen Quote
“If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.”
– Anchee Min
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
– Elbert Hubbard
December 2011
6 posts
“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something...”
– Zen Proverb
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
– Victor Kiam
“My life is my message.”
– Gandhi
“Nothing endures but change.”
– Heraclitus
November 2011
19 posts
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
– Deepak Chopra
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
– Dalai Lama
“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”
– Gary Player
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
– Mark Twain
“The best way out is always through”
– Robert Frost
“One of the most satisfying experiences in life is a deep appreciation of Nature.”
– Dorothea Kopplin
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the...”
– Voltaire
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
– Buddha
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown”
– Chinese Proverb
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.”
– Woody Allen
“What we play is life.”
– Louis Armstrong
“There is time for everything.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place...”
– Yogi Berra
“Every artist was first an amateur”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
– Groucho Marx
“I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.”
– Indian Proverb
“I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I did...”
– Albert Einstein
October 2011
21 posts
“The only thing better than fixing someone elses problem, is doing it without...”
– Robert H. Connelly
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
– Jack Sparrow
“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”
– Bill Cosby
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go...”
– Groucho Marx
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Baba Ram Dass
“You must tolerate that which you cannot change”
– Spanish Proverb
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all...”
– Buddha
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman
“All Nature wears one universal grin.”
– Henry Fielding
“It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.”
– Chas. Austin Bates
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
– Syrus
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.”
– Adam Marshall
“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures....”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with...”
– Albert Einstein