“They laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now”.
Bob Monkhouse, quoted by Robert Harris in roday’s Observer magazine.
Category Archives: Quotes
Quote of the day
“The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.”
Plato
That just about sums up the US today. The good people eventually became interested in politics and enabled the election of Obama. Then they went back to sleep, leaving the field to inhabitants of the Palin Reality Distortion Field.
Quote of the day
“We are a frontier country and there are huge areas of rural America that still believe that the solution to everything is to get a bigger gun.”
Novelist John Irving, interviewed in today’s Irish Times.
Quote of the day
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
Charles de Gaulle
Reminds me of my friend Gerard’s advice: “if you want to be appreciated (in academic or family life), buy a dog.”
Quote of the day
“I think Twitter’s a success for us when people stop talking about it, when we stop doing these panels and people just use it as a utility, use it like electricity. It fades into the background, something that’s just a part of communication. We put it on the same level as any communication device. So, e-mail, SMS, phone. That’s where we want to be.”
Twitter co-founder Joe Dorsey, speaking at a conference.
Quote of the day
In the copy economy, people paid for content; in the attention economy content creators will pay to be heard.
Quote of the day – 2
“Morning. Hooray ! 79 degrees and blue skies. And I pissed off the mail again. Life is sweet.”
From the Twitterstream of ‘disgraced’ TV presenter Jonathan Ross, currently spending part of his three-month suspension without pay on hols in Florida. Needless to say, the Daily Mail is fuming about him. Come to think of it, does the Mail ever do anything other than fume? Perhaps it should be banned under the no-smoking-in-public legislation.
Quote of the day
“Communism failed due to hiding the economic truth. Capitalism will fail as it hides the ecological truth”
Discuss.
From Tim O’Reilly’s Twitterstream.
Quote of the day
I don’t want to see Detroit’s auto industry wiped out, but what are we supposed to do with auto executives who fly to Washington in three separate private jets, ask for a taxpayer bailout and offer no detailed plan for their own transformation?
Tom Friedman, in the New York Times.
Quote of the day
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Harold Geneen, the guy who transformed ITT into the 11th largest company in the US.