This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Grace |
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. - They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. - They do not realize that "we always weaken what we exaggerate."
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. - What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
Guidance | Past | Wisdom | Guidance | Instruction |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
In listening to Sutra lectures and reciting Sutras, we must be patient and not grow weary.
Wisdom |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The Dharma is spoken; the Way has to be practiced. In order to derive benefit, you have to actually practice according to the Dharma.
Wisdom |
Much of the glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its mystery. - To understand everything we must be as God.
Censure | Praise | Superiority | Wisdom |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
If you fear others will find out about your bad deeds, those are truly bad deeds.
Distinguish | Will | Wisdom |
Before you love, learn to run through snow without leaving footprints.
Wisdom |
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
Heaven | Journey | Life | Life | Love | Need | Wisdom | Wit | Work |