“What I do really isn’t fishing. More like waterboarding for worms.” - Man to man, overheard fishing off a public pier in San Francisco.
Every year the New Yorker magazine invites
artists to remix their original cover image. Guess who got inserted.
"For the last 10 years people bought cars and refrigerators and TVs like they were going grocery shopping. Now people are grocery shopping like they're buying a car." - Mike Moriarty, A.T. Kearney business consultant
Nominations for Diagram Prize for the oddest book title include Baboon Metaphysics, Curbside Consultation of the Colon and The Large Sieve and its Application.
“One cure for a country beset by government bureaucracy and incompetence may be some old-fashioned corruption. In countries with robust institutions, corruption decreases efficiency. But in weak states, graft and bribes can ‘grease the wheels’ by enabling intelligent investors to circumvent a crooked, incapable government and invest money directly in the private sector.” - The Atlantic
"Will Americans embrace a heroine who skulks like a spy among
the intelligentsia, an apparently unlettered concierge..." - Caryn James on The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Get the f#%k out of here or I'll throw you out the window.” - Pete Stark, in discussing the national debt with interviewer, Jan Helfeld
"A belief that our prices are too high, that we run misleading advertising, and that we care more about playing golf with doctors than about helping them understand our medicines—all of this has earned our industry a reputation near the bottom of all American institutions." - Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler, in a speech acknowledging that drug companies like Pfizer don't have much credibility when discussing healthcare reform
"Don't you know?" one girl asked another in the Alameda,
California Library last week, "Ben Franklin is Aretha Franklin's father.
But he's, like, dead now. Way dead."
. ..” how can humans intervene to breed and teach the birds what they’ll need to survive without also wearing away those birds’ natural apprehension of people; without inadvertently building a race of whooping cranes that feels comfortable hanging out on golf courses and in schoolyards and the fetid little ponds around retirement communities?” - Joe Duff on using ultralights to lead whooping cranes on a safer migration
