The Hunting of the Snark :An Agony in Eight Fits By Lewis Carroll With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday SEE: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/snark/
Max Neumann wa cultured and well read. He was an amateur poetin both Hungarian and German. At work he was an enlightened businessman who felt it fitting to consider the social desirability of businesses he was financing. Dinner-table discussions with his childrenoften touched on the ...
All of the math Olympians were experts in generating ideas that might prove useful. Even when they were not doing math, they often seemed to be exercising their creative faculties. At the training camp, for example, they rarely played regular chess, which they considere ...
When I became a pledge they had various ways of hazing. One of the things they did was to take us, blindfolded, far out into the countryside in the dead of winter and leave us by a frozen lake about a hundred feet apart. We were in the middle of absolutely nowhere--no houses, no nothing-- ...
How a Colt Crossed the River One day, a colt carried a bag of wheat to the mill. As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. Water went gurgling on. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a cow grazing nearby. ...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes ...
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single ...
Churchill said that when you are at the top you only have to think about policies. When you are number two you have to think about what your boss is thinking, and what your opposite number is thinking, before you begin to think about policies. Start your own company, then you can hav ...
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light an ...
Successful, interesting college students are definitely a varied bunch. Yet there is one thing many of them have in common: a wonderful sense of possibility. Whereas most students are content to stay the course, winning students love to get excited about big goals. They crave the thrill of pursuin ...