"He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature."
- Helmut Sonnenfeldt on Henry Kissinger

"There's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert; such men would live in lunatic asylums."
- Carl Jung

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

- Noam Chomsky

computer programming

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands. HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany. HEMA was recently sold to British investment company Lion Capital. The product page is innovative:

http://producten.hema.nl

(Hat tip: RJ)

    If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
    The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, 'Bye. I have to go. I'm going crazy and I'm getting out of here.' And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.
- Steve Jobs

"The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"I learned the truth of the Zen saying that if you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door."
- Steve Jobs quoted by Walter Isaacson 

"Let's face it — you are, I am, let's face it, we're dull. Can you tell me one thing that was said or done by anyone here tonight that was funny, startling, or imaginative?"
- James Mason in 1956's Bigger Than Life as Ed Avery

"Sometimes I'll read music then listen to a book on tape."
- Steven Wright

"If all the insects were to disappear from earth, within 50 years all life would end. If all human beings disappeared from earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."

- Jonas Salk

"All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as you grow up."
- Pablo Picasso

"The best for the most for the least. That's why we got into mass production."
- Ray Eames

Cheers

"[T]he plain fact is that" alcohol "makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring. Kingsley grasped this essential fact very early in life, and (so to speak) never let go of the insight," - Christopher Hitchens [1949-2011]. But there are few people as boring as a drunk when you're sober.

"Good business is the best art."
- Andy Warhol

"When you have eliminated all that is impossible, whatever remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable."

- Sherlock Holmes

poetry

"The more you can boil something down, the better."
- Calvin Trillin

"If you ever want to run for the Presidency of the United States, you have to be prepared to strip naked and take a bath at high-noon in the busiest intersection of your town."
- Attributed to Fred Dutton, JFK Advisor

“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place.”
- Steve Jobs

"For a writer the centre of the universe is where you are."
- Amos Oz 

process

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Amy Goodman paraphrasing Gandi

organic gardener

"Have nothing in it that's not beautiful or useful."
- Prince Charles

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs

mindfulness

"We basically forget 50% of what we have learned in the last 24 hours."
- Attributed to Joshua Foer

"The Blues ain't nothing but a personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
- Cornel West  

A place to eat in Buffalo

http://www.schwabls.com/

"The Irish have a special talent for suffering ... Anybody who has been in a room full of Irish people knows that the status goes to the person who has had the worst thing happen to them most recently."
- Michael Lewis

John Adams drank a tankard of whiskey daily.

"All creative work is a war against self-conciousness; self-conciousness is the enemy of creativity."
- James L. Brooks