Fortune Cookies

 All time fortune cookie:
The great pleasure in life 
is doing what people say you cannot do.


 Fortune cookie of the week:
A person of words and not of deeds
is like a garden full of weeds.


 Watching the sunrise outdoors statistically increases your odds of having a good day. And needing a nap after lunch. Firefox.7.11.17

The plural of anecdote is not data. :)

Tara Goddard
@GoddardTara

Don't tell me why it won't work.
Tell me what you tried that didn't work.
Carlin Black, DuPont, 1966 

To try and fail is at least to learn; 

to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

 Chester Barnard

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.  
Daniel_Burnham

But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.
Lazarus Long

It's not the mistakes that count,
it's what you do after them that counts.
-Thelonious Monk

Thanks Paige Wroble for the find.

The weather right now in Seattle is cold and rainy.
It will get better--about April.
Horizon Air preflight announcement.

If it is to be it is up to me to do it.
John Tee-Van

 He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much:
Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else
Cyrus H.K.Curtis

 Wisdom is knowing what to do next;
Skill is knowing how to do it;
Virtue is doing it. 


 Learn from the mistakes of others.  
You haven't the time to make them all yourself.


 Minds are like parachutes: 
they function only when open.




"Butterflies are not insects, they are self-propelled flowers."
Captain John Sterling. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Robert A.
Heinlein, 1985.