Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Friday, July 10, 2009

Happy Birthday Uncle Tessie!


If not for the almighty Google, I would have completely missed Nikola Tesla's birthday. What an interesting and mysterious figure that fellow was. The man was ahead of his time and quite possibly working on science that we still haven't figured out to this day. From what I understand, before his death, he was working on wireless energy transfer. Imagine being able to power your home without wires to the energy company and no ginormous solar panels on the roof. Check out a biography on Tesla here.
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  1. ChrisJuly 13, 2009 at 11:19 AM

    If you haven't yet, go rent the movie The Prestige (Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine). Tesla makes an appearance and it's quite interesting. Also, Tesla is played by David Bowie which is reason enough for you to see the movie. Excellent film, one of my personal favorites.

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