Category: Quotations

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilousAnalects via The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Pg 287

Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it’s a source of spirituality.Carl Sagan

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.Analects via The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Pg 287

Chinese restaurants are like gas, in that they expand to fill a vacuum.  They have an enviable ability to take root in any community—urban or rural, cosmopolitan or isolated.  If an environment can support life, then, like bacteria, a Chinese restaurant will find it.The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Pg 186

How did General Tso’s chicken come to be?  It seemed america must have had a hand in it.  Chinese food in China is a diverse lot, but once it came to the United States it developed a few central characteristics.First of all: Chinese restaurants in America tend to shy away from anything that is recognizably…

The easiest way to accomplish something is to not have to do it in the first place.Tony Collen (@tcollen), 2014-02-25 15:01

Everything happens for a reason.  Sometimes the reason is that you’re stupid and make bad decisions.Bill Murray