Thought for the week

• Sunday, 05 October 2008

  If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

  -Robert Cringely, InfoWorld

• Sunday, 28 September 2008

  The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

  -Eugene Delacroix

• Sunday, 21 September 2008

  For a moment, nothing happened.
  Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

  -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1980

• Sunday, 14 September 2008

  Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

  -Ludwig Börne

• Sunday, 07 September 2008

  The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

  -Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC

• Sunday, 31 August 2008

  It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."

  -Kareem Abdul-Jabar

• Sunday, 24 August 2008

  When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

  -Aaron Copeland

• Sunday, 17 August 2008

  An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

  -Jean Cocteau

• Sunday, 10 August 2008

  Life has taught me that there are occasions when you should, and occasions that you shouldn't. Life has not yet taught me to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

  -Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• Sunday, 03 August 2008

  Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  -Albert Einstein

• Sunday, 27 July 2008

  Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

  -Georges Bracque

• Sunday, 20 July 2008

  Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

  -Catherine Drinker Bowen

• Sunday, 13 July 2008

  The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.

  -Pierre Boulez

• Sunday, 06 July 2008

  What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

  -Robert Browning

• Sunday, 29 June 2008

  I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

  -Diane Ackerman

• Sunday, 22 June 2008

  Jack Handey

  -To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.

• Sunday, 15 June 2008

  Margaret Bourke-White

  -The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

• Sunday, 08 June 2008

  It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."

  -Kareem Abdul-Jabar

• Sunday, 01 June 2008

  When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

  -Aaron Copeland

• Sunday, 25 May 2008

  An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

  -Jean Cocteau