Bershere’s Formula for Failure:
There are only two kinds of people who fail: those who listen to nobody… and those who listen to everybody.
Harbors
Ships in a harbor are safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
—John A. Shedd
Thoughts on Education
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
~Norman Douglas
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
~Albert Einstein
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
~Norman Douglas
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B. F. Skinner
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm Forbes
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
~Al McGuire
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
~Mark Twain
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
~Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa for the win
On the subject of safety
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin, 1759
I originally had a long post on this. But Ben Franklin’s statement really needs no additions. You either get it, or you’ll get it far too late.
Pearl Harbor
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
—President Franklin D. Roosevelt
I feel all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with terrible resolve.
—Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto