Tag: technology
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August 25, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable…
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August 24, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry). 1591 Robert Herrick, 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. 1579 John Amner, English…
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August 23, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1485 Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus (Beatus Rhenanus Library). 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, and inventor (steam piston engine; Papinian pot…
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August 22, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.” — Dorothy Parker BIRTHDAYS: 1485 Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus (Beatus Rhenanus Library). 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, and inventor (steam piston engine; Papinian pot (pressure cooker)…
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August 21, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The name was supposed to be ‘Googol,’ which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.” — Sergey Brin BIRTHDAYS: 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter. 1751 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, born in Neustadt near Coburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman…
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August 20, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.” — Alexis de Tocqueville BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”, born in Rome, Papal States. 1720 Bernard de Bury, French musician…
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August 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A flea and a fly in a flueWere imprisoned, so what could they do?Said the fly, “let us flee!”“Let us fly!” said the flea.So they flew through a flaw in the flue.” — Ogden Nash BIRTHDAYS: 1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements.…
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August 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.” — Brian Aldiss BIRTHDAYS: 1497 Francesco da Milano, Italian lutenist and composer, also known as ‘Il divino’, born in Monza. Fantasias 9, 11, 10, and Ricercari 1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and teacher of…
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August 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter (Dance of the Amorini), born in Bologna, Papal States. 1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to…
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August 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1761 Yevstigney…
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