Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
Another from Quotes of the Day: Isabel Colegate.
"It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."The great thing about weblogging is that it's a pure meritocracy. Other people can ignore your ideas if they find them worthless.
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
A nice quote from the Queen Mother in Sunday's Telegraph:
"Travel by helicopter? I think the chopper has changed my life - rather as it did Anne Boleyn's. "
Good quote from Jamie Zawinski - "Linux is only free if your time has no value" - He's quite right. That doesn't denigrate it, but for most situations, cost is not the best reason for choosing Linux.
Tom Bradford's 'The Future of XML' is a timely warning. Perhaps the motto for the W3C should be one of my favourite quotes, taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
You know you have reached perfection in design, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to be taken away.
Somewhere, yesterday, I read something to the effect that:
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how come nobody's yet painted a picture which says that?
While I was in the shower in my usual semi-concious state this morning, all sorts of developments of this idea started popping into my head. Like:
Of course, some might argue that any good picture is not only worth a thousand words, but implicitly conveys the subtext that a picture is worth a thousand words, and hence nobody needs to spell it out explicitly!
Mmm. Time for bed...