Now I know it's not the player, but the music that I miss.

- Jill Barber, "Measures and Scales"

Demand vs. Production

Demand doesn't increase out of a rise in production, but out of a rise in Demand.

-- FT reader post

"This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud.”

Patrick J. Michaels, climate scientist, describing the email-leaking "Climate-Gate"

We’re just a million little god’s causin rain storms turnin’ every good thing to rust

Life is Hell, Music the Only Salvation

It doesn't have to be Starbucks

I need a job, one that meets the world, and it doesn't have to be Fortune 500, or anything, just a place where I can take my time, to learn the ropes.

And who can ask for more?

暴政源於恐懼

"it's not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

Oil is still...King

"Sure, commodities prices go down in the long term, but in the long term, we are all dead"

-- jim rogers

WW4

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein