About
Lived in Brasil from the time I was 2.5 until I was twelve.
Masters degree in Physics.
20 years in the unmanned exploration of space.
46 years working with computers.
Poet.
Retired from Unitrin Specialty on 18 Nov 2011
Education
- New Mexico State University
- Highland High School, Albuquerque, NM
Favorite saying
- "“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ― Abraham Lincoln
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall. -Bernard Malamud, novelist and short-story writer (1914-1986)
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. -Alan Alda, actor and director (b. 1936)
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” -Erich Fromm
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
― John Steinbeck
"I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”-- Federico Garcia Lorca
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. -Friedrich Nietzsche
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. -Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004)
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
There is but one god, Death; there is but one prayer, "Not yet." - religious instruction from Sword Master in Game of Thrones
G.K. Chesterton: "We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome."
Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren, actress (b. 1934)
In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. -Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763)
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. -Lewis Carroll
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears. -Octavio Paz, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1914-1998)
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. -Pablo Picasso, painter, and sculptor (1881-1973)
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -Heraclitus, philosopher (500 BCE)
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-92)
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator (1895-1976)
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. -Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist, author, educator; Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994)"
