Stephen Hawking's Quotations

Hawking's wonderful. I especially enjoy 10 and 2...

10. "Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."

9. "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

8. "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

7. "I find that American & Scandinavian accents work better with women." In response to a question about the American accent of his synthesiser.

6. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."

5. "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

4. "To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen."

3. "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."

2. "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

1. "Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."

Happy New Year!

Okay, so here I'm supposed to record my resolutions. Well, guess what: I haven't made any yet.

Things, off the top of my head, that I'd like to accomplish this year:

1. I'd really like to get serious about this portal of mine. I think there is something there....but the time! What concrete goal? 2. Fitness. I have to drop about 20 pounds....maybe 15+ muscle.
3. MBA -- I'm foolish if I don't at least start this. Start MBA == success ( take GMAT, get transcripts, etc)
4. The Book -- I've got a good book idea, lots of interesting research. Lets say we have at least 50k words written by the april writers colony thing. ( need to request vac for this)
5. Work - I want to increase my abilites there, and go to conferences, etc. Lets go to agile 08. Lets get some training, join PMI?, and lock down title. ( need metrics here)
6. Finanical -- Get serious about budgeting. I wonder if we could get gazelle intense and pay off this car of mine?
7. Family -- I want to go somewhere cool on vacation with my family. Snow vacation, and summer disney (?)

Just for note, I'm really having a great time in my life. If I was a bit more finanical secure I'd be happier, but other than that, I'm good.

God bless us and protect us for the year 2008!




Thats it for now. I should add some meat to this later....The only way