Tag: books
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February 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To measure is to know.” — Eratosthenes of Cyrene BIRTHDAYS: 1695 André Chéron, French organist, harpsichordist, and composer. Sonate en FaM 1913 Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. 1941 Spencer Silver, American scientist and inventor of Post-it®…
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February 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1534 Giovanni de’ Bardi, Italian writer, soldier, composer, and patron of the arts (The Florentine Camerata), born in Republic of Florence. Venid a suspirar al verde prado 1594 Biagio Marini, Italian violin virtuoso…
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February 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as…
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February 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard P. Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1525 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, born in Palestrina, Papal States.…
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February 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Whatever you do, don’t doubt yourself because of others. That’s the only thing I want to impress upon you, as strongly as I can.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Louis Marchand, French Baroque organist and composer. Plein jeu in c, and Chaconne 1875 (Friedrich-Max) “Fritz” Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer. Liebesleid,…
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February 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin BIRTHDAYS: 1550 John Napier, Scottish mathematician (the 8th Laird of Merchiston, near Edinburgh) best known for inventing logarithms, one of the most important mathematical…
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January 31, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who alwaysknow what’s bestarea universal pest.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1517 Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer and musical theorist., born in Chioggia. Bicinia 6 y 8 modo 1797 Franz Schubert, one of the most gifted and prolific composers of the early Romantic era, often seen as the bridge between Classical and…
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January 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Today’s environment is beginning to threaten today’s organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design… The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.” — Douglas Engelbart…
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January 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Thomas Paine, English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary,…
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January 28, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Beware the man of a single book.” — Thomas Aquinas BIRTHDAYS: 1225 Thomas Aquinas, also known as Saint Thomas Aquinas or the Angelic Doctor, was an Italian Dominican friar, priest, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in Western philosophy and Catholic theology. 1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle,…
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