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Random Thoughts

I love mornings like this morning. You can hear the rain falling like a thousand tiny water falls on the tin roof. The house is quiet because most houses are at 5am. And I have time to reflect and think and scheme a little. As I do that my mind is drawn to a couple of quotes I read recently that are quite deep but v cool.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" - Alan Kay

"The kind of thinking that will solve the worlds problems will be different to the kind of thinking that created them" - Albert Einstein.

INNOVATE

You owe it to yourself to create something remarkable one day!

Seth Godin

YOUR FUTURE

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

THE LAZY EMPLOYEE

Lazy people irriate their employers, like vinegar to the teeth or smoke in the eyes.

King Solomon

BEING REAL

Blessed are they that laugh at themselves, they shall never cease to be entertained.

Anon

Hard Work

Alan McDiarmid, a Kiwi and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, died today aged 79.

I saw an interview with him last year on Campbell live and he said this quote

" I am a very lucky person. And the harder I work, they luckier I seem to be"

Alan McDiarmid - 2006

CONQUERING

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

Sir Edmund Hillary

THIS GENERATION

"This generation will be remembered for three things: the Internet, the war on terror, and how we let an entire continent go up in flames while we stood around with watering cans. Or not."

Bono

[Hat Tip - Ben]

DREAMING

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

William Dement - sleep researcher

CONTRADICTION

"I’ve always thought smack in the middle of a contradiction is a great place to be!"

Bono - U2