Monday, September 27, 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010


It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ~John Steinbeck

Sunday, September 19, 2010


the five stages of innovation
People deny that the innovation is required.
People deny that the innovation is effective.
People deny that the innovation is important.
People deny that the innovation will justify the effort required to adopt it.
People accept and adopt the innovation, enjoy its benefits,

attribute it to people other than the innovator, and deny the

existence of stages 1 to 4.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Monday, September 6, 2010


"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think." — Werner Heisenberg (Across the Frontiers)

Sunday, September 5, 2010


Wir müssen wissen — wir werden wissen! "We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan ...shall be:>We must know — we will know!" ~David Hilbert

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Whence come I and whither go I?
That is the great unfathomable question,
the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. ~Max Planck