A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.

Karl Weick, "Theory Building as

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Au

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Henry David Thoreau

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Francesco Petrarch

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

Toba Beta

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred A. Allen

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

Benjamin Franklin

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

William S. Burroughs

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.

Alain de Botton

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.

Henry Morgan