Category Archives: quotes

Make things.

This is an amazing and inspirational speech from Adam Savage of Tested.com and Mythbusters. I can’t tell you how closely to my own feelings and experiences he comes.

We have to make things. I have to make things. It’s not a coincidence that you’re greeted with that admonishment when you visit my portfolio. I think it’s the most important thing you can do. It will make you learn, question and grow.

We are all the victims.

“This is a war between fundamentalists…and we are all the victims.”

said Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Afghanistan’s national security adviser, reflecting on the turmoil at the moment.

Afghanistan Kiln Workers/Every Man in America.

“We are slaves here because when you owe someone money, then of course you’re a slave”

Once again, haunting words from the news reach well beyond their context.

[NYT]

Onward…

“We didn’t do anything to them, but they attacked us,”

said the boy, who was later reunited with his mother. His father remains on duty on Yeonpyeong.

“When I grow up, I want to be a soldier, like my dad,”

he said.

This quote from a WSJ article today transcends the subject at hand.

This is why the cycles continue. This is how it happens. This is why we die.