Tag: history
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December 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” — Frank Zappa BIRTHDAYS: 1401 Masaccio, Italian painter. 1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian organist and composer. Exultate Gaudete, and Sonata XVIII a 5 Les Plaisirs du Parnasse, and Sonata VII and 3 in D 1628 Samuel Friedrich…
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December 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat BIRTHDAYS: 1594 Giovanni Battista de Gagliano, Italian composer, born in Florence,…
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December 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.” — Arthur C. Clarke BIRTHDAYS: 1569 Jakob Hassler, German composer,…
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December 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.T When you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit’s well to remember thatThings Take Time.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven is widely regarded as the most important musical figure in the…
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December 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, ‘Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.’ Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it’s embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.” — Michael J.…
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December 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly— whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who…
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October 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure…
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October 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the…
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October 22, 2024
“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1698 Nicola Logroscino, Italian composer, born in Bitonto, Bari, Kingdom of Naples. ALLEGRO (III tempo) dal Concerto a cinque per Traversiere ed archi in sol magg. 1737 Vincenzo Manfredini, Italian harpsichordist, composer, and music theorist, born in…
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October 21, 2024
“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Domenichino [Domenico Zampieri], Italian Baroque painter. 1751 David Moritz Michael, Moravian conductor and composer, (Die Wasserfahrt -The Water Journey), born in Kühnhausen, Prussia.…
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