Despair is the armchair (2)

Despair is the armchair

As you read travel books, you should be able to see the people and places, to hear them, to smell them. Some of it is painful, but travel - its very motion - ought to suggest hope. Despair is the armchair; its indifference and glazed, incurious eyes. I think travellers are essentially optimists, or else they would never go anywhere. A travel book ought to reflect that optimism.

· Paul Theroux

old idea

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris

The greatest challenge

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
- Bertrand Russell

serious matters

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- Philip K. Dick

very funny

2 do.

Dance like it hurts,/ Love like you need money,/ Work when people are watching.
- Scott Adams

Freezing in New York

control

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
- Mario Andretti

secret of life

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole

the future for less,,,,,

I saw this in Dixons this afternoon. Didn't know they even made fax machines any more. The future for less label seemed a bit inappropriate.

from 1936

funny

sad song

memory

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

ipod touch day

the ipod is six years old today. and today was the day I gave in and bought an ipod touch which I didn't need. Couldn't resist finding out what the touch screen and new interface looks like. Looks every bit as good as I imagined it, I just get the feeling that I should be holding it to my my ear and making a call. the volume seems a bit low on song playback though, hope that silly euro nanny thing about limiting volume hasn't been set up.

only the shallow.......

Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde

From Here To Eternity

Deborah Kerr died today aged 86. I thought she was older and had died many years ago.

Road to Nowhere

let the trees grow apples

Saw a link to this photo on the FAKE STEVE site. Apart entirely from the fact that this must be a worrying picture for Microsoft, it's even more amazing to me that I can spot only one guy using pen and paper.