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  • We just decided to go

    ByHeather

    From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle, we just decided to go.

    — Jim Lovell

    There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 in which astronaut Jim Lovell is hosting a dinner party at his house. At some point in the evening he escapes the hubbub of his guests and takes a seat in a lawn chair in the back yard. When someone comes out to join him he utters the phrase above.

    The moon landings were the culmination of a gargantuan series of tasks. Thousands of people invested hundreds of thousands of hours coordinating and delivering on thousands of tasks. It wasn’t a miracle that we landed on the moon. We just set our minds to it and decided to go.

    Theme of the week: Just decide to go.

  • Children

    ByHeather

    Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

    — Socrates

    It cracks me up when I see the author of this quote. I taught high school for two years and can say that at least some things never change. 🙂

  • The Law of Anecdotal Value

    ByHeather

    Choose the experiences in life that offer the most anecdotal value — that is, look for the opportunities that have the most likelihood of producing a cool story.

    At the The Moth Chicago Grand Slam this year Peter Sagal (yes, that Peter Sagal) relayed these words of wisdom, passed on to him by a theater professor at Lewis and Clark College many years before.

    With a tip of the hat to The Moth, make it a story-worthy life.

  • The best evidence for the existence of intelligent life

    ByHeather

    The best evidence for the existence of intelligent life in the universe lies in the fact that they have steadfastly refused to contact us.

    — Richard Boyd

    I saw this quote as a letter-to-the-editor in one of the San Francisco Bay Area papers several years ago. I love the twisted logic and the inherent presumptions that it contains. Some attempts at logical arguments for the existence of God share these logical fallacies.

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