All Power Corrupts
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
— Unknown
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Christmas Rum Cake
I have had this recipe since the early days of email. It is not original but it is de-licious nonetheless. Enjoy . . .
Answer me this: If I’m so “crazy,” then why did they choose me to be their spokesperson to the people of Earth?
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead.
— Clay Shirky
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)
Via Wordsmith.org
I have had this recipe since the early days of email. It is not original but it is de-licious nonetheless. Enjoy . . .