Tony's Garden

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin BIRTHDAYS: 1700 Michel Blavet, French composer. Sonata Op.2 No.3, and Concerto in a-moll MISCELLANEOUS: THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL. How risky is the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Alan Kay BIRTHDAYS: 1515 Caspar Othmayr, German composer and Lutheran pastor, born in Amberg, Duchy of Bavaria. Hüt Du Dich 1672 Richard Steele, Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “My ‘thinking’ time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight. Moreover … the operations that fill most of the time allegedly…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!” — Yuri Gagarin BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, navigator, and explorer born in Florence who participated in transatlantic expeditions sponsored by Spain and Portugal, primarily between…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. O Vos Omnes 1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria sub…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in…