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- The central Kafka joke... is that our endless and impossible journey toward our home, is our home. --- as related by David Foster Wallace
- Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist. --- Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace
- The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation. ...
The family is strongest where objective reality is the most likely to misinterpreted. --Don DeLillo
- "Using a key to gouge expletives on another's vehicle is a sign of trust, and friendship." --Ignignot, ATHF
- The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
- Africa is nothing like 'The Lion King.' I think that movie took a lot of artistic license.
- Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility --James Thurber
- We fill pre-existing forms
and when we fill them
we change them
and are changed.
- You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- It's excellence, not happiness, that we admire most.
- Happiness is only real when shared. --Into the Wild
- Where there's muck, there's brass
- For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed,
they must be interrupted.
- We must acknowledge that nobody is ever fully knowable -- maybe especially not those closest to us. What animates and motivates others is very often a stew of secrets they will take to their graves.
- My daddy told me when I was a boy, "The only way you can be different from other people is to do some shit they don't want to do" -- Wynton Marsalis
- At twenty-nine one exchanges a great vague possibility for a small hard reality
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The powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn,
grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.
Thus, management can be the most noble of professions, if it's practiced well.