Thought for the Day

[Duke of Buckingham]

My real treasure is inside my heart, is in there that I keep all the good things of my life.
If one day I deny my heart, I am denying the best part of me.

Someone Like Me

[Duke of Buckingham]

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

[Duke of Buckingham]

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu


Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius


We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David Suzuki


A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Thomas Carlyle

[Duke of Buckingham]

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

― Virginia Woolf


“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

― Albert Einstein


“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”

― Milan Kundera

[Duke of Buckingham]

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.

Sex And The City


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance

George Bernard Shaw


There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Winston Churchill


The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together

Erma Bombeck


If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

[Duke of Buckingham]

Nearly 35% of the 2,490 teachers enrolled in the evaluation test on Portugal, that gave a valid test, failed the test, and nearly 290 had their second failure.

Something to think about on Our Children Education.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.


Daniel J. Boorstin

[Duke of Buckingham]

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

THOMAS JEFFERSON


I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

RONALD REAGAN

[Duke of Buckingham]

One thought of my own.

Politicians and economist think that Greece is doomed and must pay immediately, the people in Greece think different.

Isnt the will of the people something we must respect?

Germany thinks Greece should pay all their debts on Germany schedule, Greece thinks German should pay all their debts to Greece from WWII.

We cant condemn one all generation to poverty, not in Germany and not in Greece.

People forget very fast and get more and more greedy and what is GREED, if I may ask?

[Duke of Buckingham]

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Jean Baudrillard


The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

David Deutsch


The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

Ray Kurzweil


Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

Drew Curtis