Posts tagged “quotations”

“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
Beryl Markham

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.
George Santayana

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

Stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
Richard P. Feynman

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
Alfred Hitchcock

Sometimes you don’t know if you’re Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy

You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.
Merlin Mann

You can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Homer Simpson

“Cold beer is bottled God.”
Dylan Thomas

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.