CONNECT - A trade union, with over 17,000 members, for managers and professionals working in the information industry. Formerly the Society of Telecom Executives (STE).
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton CONNECT Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) CONNECT
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) CONNECT I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha CONNECT
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) CONNECT My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) CONNECT
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, CONNECT Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun CONNECT
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller CONNECT Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer CONNECT
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning CONNECT "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) CONNECT
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake CONNECT Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm CONNECT
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison CONNECT "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) CONNECT
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill CONNECT The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats CONNECT
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will CONNECT Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari CONNECT
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield CONNECT Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben CONNECT
