Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 28 “ Time is but memory in the making. ” ― Vladimir Nabokov As cited in  Recursion by Blake Crouch. Context as provided in Nabokov's interview with BBC-2 in 1969: Let me quote a paragraph in my book Ada : " Physiologically the sense of Time is a sense of continuous becoming. . . . Philosophically , on the other hand, Time is but memory in the making. In every individual life there goes on, from cradle to deathbed, the gradual shaping and strengthening of that backbone of consciousness, which is the Time of the strong." This is Van speaking, Van Veen, the charming villain of mv book. I have not decided yet if I agree with him in all his view's on the texture of time. I suspect I don't.   See  Restoration of time: Henry Bergson and Vladimir Nabokov  for an exploration of Nabokov's notion of time, viewing it through the lens of Henri Bergson ’s philosophy. According to Nabokov “time is essentially memory in th...

Quote of the Week 32 " It takes a long time to become young. " ―  Pablo Picasso   Triggered by John Maeda's compilation of Picasso quotes  including " One starts to get young at 60, and then it’s too late . " See also:  https://joemckeever.com/wp/it-takes-a-long-time-to-become-young/ In his book by this title, Garson Kanin , a well-known playwright, told how Pablo Picasso walked into a hall where a massive display of his paintings was being exhibited. The artist strode into the gathering with a beautiful young woman on each arm and a smile on his countenance. Someone approached him and after the greeting, said, “Sire, I have a question. There is something about your painting that puzzles me.” The man pointed out that in Picasso’s first paintings, done when he was a young man, the scenes are dark and formal and according to all the standards. But, he said, “The paintings of your latter years are alive and colorful and so youthful! How do you explain that?” Picass...

Quote of the Week 4 " Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.    Space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you ." ― Susan Sontag   Triggered by Robert's reference to the quote .  Consult  Quote Investigator for origin and history of the quote that Susan Sontag made popular. Related quote of week 8/23 wrt space & time: "Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time." ―  Jean-Michel Basquiat

Quote of the Week 8 " Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. " ― Jean-Michel Basquiat Triggered by a recent tweet similar to this one: “Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time,” — Jean-Michel Basquiat pic.twitter.com/O5a91JJNLu — upfromsumdirt (@upfromsumdirt) February 5, 2023 [ LinkedIn ]  

Quote of the Week 23 " You can have it all, just not all at the same time." ― Betty Friedan A variation of the quote is attributed to Oprah Winfrey : " You can have it all. Just not all at once." Triggered by a recent Pivot podcast . Related  quote of week 4/24 : "Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.    Space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you." ―  Susan Sontag  

Quote of the Week 45 " Anything lost can be found again, except time wasted. " ― Kevin Gates Triggered by the use of the quote  ―  from " Wish I Had It " song lyrics by  Kevin Gates   ―   in a comment to a post on LinkedIn by Corporate Rebels . Anything lost can be found again Except time wasted     A vision without action Is merely a dream Action is the pride It the hustle It's the persistence   ... See also related quotes by Peter Drucker and  Henry Ford . [ LinkedIn ]  

Quote of the Week 48 " You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave . " ― Don Henley &  Glenn Frey ( Eagles , " Hotel California " song text ) One of the greatest guitar solos of all time - just after these final lines at 4:18 .

Quote of the Week " When you're dealing with exponential growth, the time to act is when it feels too early. " ―  Paul Graham First seen on Twitter .

Quote of the Week 11 " If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. " ―  Blaise Pascal Source:  Quote Investigator Quote search triggered by a related quote:  "If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now." ― Woodrow Wilson Source:  Q uote Investigator

Quote of the Week 50 " Those who never have time do least. " ―  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg " Man sollte nie so viel zu tun haben, dass man zum Nachdenken keine Zeit mehr hat. " See also:   LinkedIn   post.  

Quote of the Week 9 "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." ― C. Northcote Parkinson ( Parkinson's Law ) Triggered by the reference in a recent blog post  on Google's decline by Stephen E. Arnold. [ LinkedIn ]

2nd Quote of the Week 49 " The child is grown. The dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. " ― Roger Waters ( Pink Floyd , " Comfortably Numb " lyrics ) David Gilmour 's incredible second  guitar solo (4:31) that follows these final lines trumps Roger's lyrics if you ask me: "Comfortably Numb" is one of Pink Floyd's best-known songs, notable for its two guitar solos . [4]  In 2005, it became the last song ever performed by Waters, Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright , and drummer Nick Mason  together. ...  Gilmour said the song represented the last time he and Waters were able to work together constructively. ...  Eventually, the group compromised by using the orchestral elements for the main portion and using Gilmour's stripped-down mix for final guitar solo. [8] Waters said: "That's all we could do without somebody 'winning' and somebody 'losing.' And of course, who lost, if you like, was the band, becaus...

2023 Quotes CW 1 "W e do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy . " ― The Programmers' Credo   2022 Quotes CW 52 " W e do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy . " ―  Maurice Switzer CW 51 "B e conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept . " ―  Jon Postel  (Postel's Law) CW 50 " What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people . " ―  Josef Weizenbaum CW 49 " A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good . " ― Martin LeBlanc CW 48 " Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations . " ―  Melvin Conway  ( Conway's Law ) CW 47 " Adding manpower to a late softw...