Two Thoughts (7 - 13 May)
Sunday 7 May
Two thoughts from Roy Peter Clark:
“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond.”
“For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?”
Monday 8 May
Two thoughts from Mick Jagger:
“Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up?”
“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”
Tuesday 9 May
Two thoughts from Fred Brooks:
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.”
“All programmers are optimists.”
Wednesday 10 May
Two thoughts from Gretchen Rubin:
“Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”
“Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.”
Thursday 11 May
Two thoughts from Donald Winnicott:
“The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.”
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality.”
Friday 12 May
Two thoughts from Barry Schwartz:
“Happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.”
“Ninety percent of adults spend half their waking lives doing things they would rather not be doing at places they would rather not be.”
Saturday 13 May
Two thoughts from Steve Silberman:
“The kids formerly ridiculed as nerds and brainiacs have grown up to become the architects of our future.”
“Not all the features of atypical human operating systems are bugs.”
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