On advertising
“Without promotion something terrible happens...Nothing!" - PT Barnum
Posted on Sunday, 6th February 2011 by Michael Lockyear | 16:27
On neighbours and beliefs
"I would suggest that if your ideals and beliefs make you increasingly isolated from your neighbors, maybe it’s time to find new neighbors." - Simon Black
Posted on Monday, 10th January 2011 by Michael Lockyear | 19:20
On repetition
"Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost." - Oscar Wilde
Posted on Monday, 3rd January 2011 by Michael Lockyear | 12:17
On complexity
“Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it.” - Alan Perlis (Computer Scientist)
Posted on Monday, 27th December 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 17:09
On socialism and spending other people's money
"...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them." - Margaret Thatcher (this quote is often shortenned: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money ")
Posted on Sunday, 19th December 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 17:31
On liberty and safety
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Posted on Wednesday, 15th December 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 13:47
On newspapers and the truth
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson
Posted on Friday, 24th September 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 13:29
On integrity
"...it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to “just this once,” based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you’ll regret where you end up. You’ve got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place." - Clayton M. Christensen (via James Siminoff)
Posted on Thursday, 26th August 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 12:25
On stupidity
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Posted on Sunday, 11th July 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 18:23
On money
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
Posted on Friday, 9th July 2010 by Michael Lockyear | 14:38




