Daily ration of beer on Captain Cook's voyages = 1 gallon = 8 pints.

The mind is its own place,
      and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell,
      a Hell of Heaven

"Every act of communication is an act of translation."
- Gregory Rabassa

"It's nice to have something which is unfinished because it implies that there is still room for growth."
- Japanese essays on idleness

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

- Thomas Edison

poke

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact and that is: everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you ... The minute that you understand that that you can poke life and that something will, if you push in, something will actually pop out the other side ... that you can change it; you can mould it ... that's maybe the most important thing."
- Steve Jobs

find your voice

Dave Grohl South By Southwest (SXSW) 2013 Keynote Speech

a dozen years

As a young man Dick Cheney failed out of Yale and was incarcerated for drunk driving, but became the youngest White House Chief of Staff twelve years later.

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
- Thomas Paine

"Play scared."
- Jerry Rice

"It's the failures that make you successful."
- David Steinberg

"You must continually look for inspiration to last."
- Michael Jackson

"The critics never liked me, but the people did."
- John Wayne

"Life is a journey from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."
- Dr. Samuel Johnson

routine

"I go to sleep every night between 8:15pm and 8:30pm and I wake up at 4am."
- Mark Wahlberg

on data

"If you can't measure it, you can't fix it."
- Michael Bloomberg

"I write from 9am to 2pm daily."
- Adam Gopnik

Journalist: What is it that attracts you to the dessert?

T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.

From David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia

"Drawing is thinking."
- Milton Glaser

Rosso Fiorentino's The Musical Angel. Take a virtual tour of the Uffizi gallery here.

"The purpose of art is to inform and delight."
- Attributed to Horace by Milton Glaser

amusing Winston

Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous. Winston Churchill loved them. 
1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it. 
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list. 
3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. 
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. 
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. 
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 
8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. 9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. 
10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify:' I put 'DOCTOR'. 
11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. 
12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. 
13. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure. 
14. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. 15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. 
16. You're never too old to learn something stupid. 
17. I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

important centre for modern art

"You can have success. We've seen it a million times. To maintain it is another thing ... I don't know how to learn from success. I haven't figured that part out."
- Jay Z

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."
- Bob Dylan

where Keith Richards eats

Matisse and Hemingway also enjoyed Trattoria Da Romano.

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow