“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
Mike Kirby Rebooted
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Enjoy Good Luck
"I've always heard the old folks say that if you don't know how to enjoy good luck when it comes, you shouldn't complain if it passes you by.” - in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Monday, December 23, 2024
Humility
"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself." - T.S. Eliot
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Deterence
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington, First Annual Address to Congress, January 8, 1790
Friday, September 20, 2024
Essence of Science
“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.” ― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Anxious Generation
"We are overprotective in the real world, and underprotective in the digital world." - Jonathan Haidt
Saturday, April 6, 2024
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