Tuesday, March 27, 2018
With no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get an idea for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they're not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens, still no ideas come.
— Richard P. Feynman on lack of teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Monday, March 26, 2018
That's the trouble with not being in your own field: you don’t take it seriously.
— Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Sunday, March 25, 2018
I love gossip.
— Jeff Goldblum, Isle of Dogs
Saturday, March 24, 2018
One of my major problems is I find myself too funny.
— Sid (not verbatim)
Friday, March 23, 2018
If I would have closed my eyes it would have been like I was 12 or 14.
— Sid on how when eating chocolate cake he feels young
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Radio circuits were much easier to understand in those days because everything was out in the open.
— Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
They made money by killing flies, 10 cents per hundred.
— Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
If somebody spilled something, Rockefeller poured dimes over the stains as a tip for the person who mopped it up.
— Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Monday, March 19, 2018
The X-height Files #2
— Subject line of a work email
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Lets sing loud.
— Mason on ABCs
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Everyone's looking at us.
— Sweet older woman, whom Lily and I were looking at periodically, (potentially from Australia) who was playing backgammon with her sweet older husband near us on the picnic table
Friday, March 16, 2018
Happy cock, happy k***!
— Mason's accidental wordplay response to "Happy mom, happy life."
Thursday, March 15, 2018
It's the whole solar system on a baby!
— Mason
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Like many powerful men, he retains a deep desire to be accepted by the working class world he arose from.
— Adam Popescu, "Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice,
Post-Truth World," The New York Times
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
And here's another hit, Barry Bonds.
— Kanye West, "Barry Bonds"
Monday, March 12, 2018
Are you in this conversation?
— Sid to Lily
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Do stocks go up on Sundays?
— Lily on stocks
Saturday, March 10, 2018
A physician can't be a physician by name. Who codifies him? The patients.
— Preaching man on subway
Friday, March 9, 2018
You did more than those two.
— Lily pointing to two pigeons after I said I didn't do anything today
Thursday, March 8, 2018
It's a good thing to hide behind.
— Damien Hirst on his company called "Science," 02/20/2002, Charlie Rose
