out of John's mind

Dec
17th

Sat

Weight watching tip: change your aftershave.

Dec
12th

Mon

Whether or not you believe that CO2 is the secular apocalypse, one thing is certain, the people that are trained in the arcane science of climate proxies are inadequate in training and incompetent in execution of something as large as architecting a future for our civilization.

— Dennis Ray Wing in an article “The True Failure of Durban” on www.wattsupwiththat.com

Nov
29th

Tue

The kindest thing that can be said is that they have so little moral and intellectual anchoring that they easily drift with the currents of the day. To be kind, it’s not that they are dishonest, so much as they cannot recognize dishonesty. They are moral idiots, as per Kant.

— Jim Tynen commenting on the morals of Climategaters in his column Outside Observer

Absolute must read for those of you interested in the climate debate and reviving the scientific method

Climategate 2.0 has been brewing for about a week now. The cat is out of the bag again and climate alarmists are finally getting called out, with their own words none the less.

With the relentless effort of people like Willis Eschenbach, who armed with the Freedom of Information ACT (FOI) and an amazing amount of patience are holding leading alarmist scientists accountable to the taxpayers who fund their activism thinly veiled as research.

Nov
21st

Mon

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

— Betrand Russell

Nov
8th

Tue

And what you do is when you bring in the world’s most sophisticated architects and engineers, you can literally build anything, including a building of 140 or 150 stories. But designing a municipal network of sewage treatment is in some ways more complex.

— Kate Ascher, author of ”The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper” commenting on why sewage is transported by tank trucks from the Burj Khalifa,the world’s tallest building.

Nov
3rd

Thu

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nov
2nd

Wed

Expertise gives you the tools to seek out the confirmations you need to buttress your beliefs.

— Matt Ridley, author of “The Rational Optimist” explaining why knowledge makes us even more susceptible to confirmation bias.

Oct
20th

Thu

It was just a big fun thing and it happened to turn out pretty good.

— Ed Sabol, creator of NFL films

Oct
11th

Tue

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Sep
21st

Wed

The 6 killer apps of prosperity

Aug
26th

Fri

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steve Jobs

Just like a football match, I’m there to win. That’s our focus, we don’t have a plan A, we only have a plan B.

— Reply by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, candidate for Prime Minister for the Danish Social Democratic party when asked about her political future if she leads her party to their fourth election defeat in a row.

Aug
15th

Mon

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

— H L Mencken

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

— Eric Hoffer “Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”