Gabor’s Positive Thoughts

-- Albert Einstein

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."

-- Ayn Rand

-- T.S. Eliot via Positive Thought of the Week

x axis: Time, last 7 days

"I recently discovered a bug in the free trial of my app that caused it to never expire, making it essentially the same as the paid version of my app. Oops! Amazingly, people were still buying the full version. This has restored my faith in humanity."

"What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents.

But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of humankind. Their conclusions are derived in part from testing very young children, and partly from comparing human children with those of chimpanzees, hoping that the differences will point to what is distinctively human.

The somewhat surprising answer at which some biologists have arrived is that babies are innately sociable and helpful to others. Of course every animal must to some extent be selfish to survive. But the biologists also see in humans a natural willingness to help."

-- John Wayne via iheartquotes

Virgin America and Google and Gogo are winning some hearts and minds by doing this free wifi promotion. If you think about, it's only natural to have free Wifi on every plane, on every flight. (And until that happens, you can just use reMail :-)

"it's like an enormous chicken!"

"is there an official hand gesture for pardoning a turkey?"