|
|||||
|
“[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” -Donald Rumsfeld Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. -Nikola Tesla
Bonus trivia: Tesla is the reason behind the term “death ray”. He claimed to have invented a charged particle beam that could use directed energy to destroy any vehicle that an enemy might use for invasions. The press called it a “death ray”, with no small amount of skeptical disdain. He also inspired science fiction by coming up with an idea for an ion-propelled aircraft that did not require wings or fuel or wheels, conceiving it to be saucer-shaped. Facing off against each other: Naruto “Heh”
Experience brings out the impossibility of learning anything from facts till they are examined and interpreted by reason; and teaches that the most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves. -Alfred Marshall Bonus trivia: Marshall is largely responsible for bringing diagrams to economics, by seeking to make the subject more mathematically rigorous. His personal rules were thus: (1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. -Winston Churchill Bonus trivia: Churchill was shot at in every continent. He participated on the front lines of battle in Cuba, India, Egypt, Sudan, and in the Ottoman Empire and the Western Front during World War I. “From this moment on, Kenny Powers is just like everyone else – normal, not special. No hopes, no dreams, pretending to be happy when he’s really super sad. Just a normal guy with exceptional hair. Nothing more and nothing less. From this moment forward – the people’s champion, the Shelby sensation, the reversal pension master, the man with the golden dick, doctor cock and balls – that Kenny Powers, is now dead. And he will never pick up a baseball ever fucking again. Chapter 2. The Next Chapter.” -Kenny Powers, Eastbound and Bound. Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It’s time to start thinking. -Sir Ernest Rutherford Bonus trivia: Baron Rutherford was killed by his own title of nobility. He suffered a hernia, but as a nobleman, could only be operated on under British protocol by a titled doctor. The delay in finding such a doctor cost him his life. He is interred at Westminster Abbey alongside England’s greatest scientists, JJ Thomson and Isaac Newton. Three quotes from the movie Wall Street! We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of that hat when everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought. -Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. -Soren Kierkegaard Bonus trivia: Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of existentialism and his philosophies form the basis for both modern theology and modern atheism. For theology, he conceptualized religion as a “leap of faith” and matured the idea of God as the living spirit of freedom and human rights. But in making God objective, he also acknowledged the gap between faith and knowledge, making atheism a logical conclusion. See that? This is the favorite thing that I have on this Earth. And Rocky Marciano give me that. You know what it was? His cufflink. Huh? And now I’m givin’ it to you and it, it’s gotta be like a, like an angel on your shoulder see? If you ever get hurt and you feel that you’re goin’ down this little angel is gonna whisper in your ear. It’s gonna say, ‘Get up you son of a bitch ’cause Mickey loves you’. Okay? -Mickey Goldmill, Rocky V |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Perrymecium - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
