Worrying is ...

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

- Anonymous

One man who has a mind and knows it (George Bernard Shaw)

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

- George Bernard Shaw (an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics, 1856-1950)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality ... (Albert Einstein)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein

Whining is ... (Maya Angelou)

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth ... (Francis Bacon)

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

- Francis Bacon (an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer, 1561-1626)

The 11 Top Biofuels Trends of 2011

The 11 Top Biofuels Trends of 2011
Jim Lane | December 27, 2011

It’s that holiday time, time to look-back with misty eyes at the glories of yesteryear. In our case, at the 11 Hottest Trends of 2011, in what proved to be a vintage year for biofuels. There were IPOs a go-go, a big comeback from biodiesel. The global ethanol fleet has acquired new popularity amongst advanced biofuels developers looking for capital light steel in the ground. Meanwhile, gasification got hot. Seemed like every algae venture headed for Algstralia, and Brazil and the US Navy became everyone’s new best friends.

Dying Words, Henry Ward Beecher

Now comes the mystery.

- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887

If a man will begin with certainties ... (Francis Bacon)

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

- Francis Bacon (an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer, 1561-1626)

The grass may be ...

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

- Anonymous

A politician divides ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

An economic forecaster is ... (Anonymous)

An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.

- Anonymous

Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

- John Adams, dying words

Vices

Never practice two vices at once.

- Tallulah Bankhead

If you live among wolves ... (Nikita Khrushchev)

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

- Nikita Khrushchev

Is Algae-based Biofuel an Energy Game Changer?

Is Algae-based Biofuel an Energy Game Changer?
Author: Devon Bass
Published: December 19, 2011 at 10:26 am

Algae is one surprising potential energy source that is showing great promise. It has gained recent media attention as the U.S Navy has announced plans to test the use of algae biofuel in one of its cargo ships. Unlike oil which is only found in underground deposits in certain parts of the world, algae grows in abundance all over the globe. Approximately half of algae’s weight is comprised of lipid oil can be converted into biodiesel. Biodiesel burns more cleanly and efficiently than petroleum.

My own art is ... (Emile Zola)

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

- Emile Zola

A straight line is ... (Maria Edgeworth)

A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.

- Maria Edgeworth

The days that are still to come are ... (Pindar)

"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."

Pindar

Television is ... (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is ... (Madame de Stael)

"Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's."

Madame de Stael

Genius (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Since when was genius found respectable?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think we are drawn to dogs because ... (George Bird Evans)

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

- George Bird Evans

Two red roses

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend."

- Anonymous

Life improves slowly ... (Edward Teller)

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

- Edward Teller

Democracy is ... (E.B. White)

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

- E.B. White (1899-1985)

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

- Anonymous

1 Corinthians 13 NIV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

- 1 Corinthians 13 NIV

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

- Anonymous

Marriage is ... (Hoshang N. Akhtar)

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Hoshang N. Akhtar

Experience (Albert Camus)

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

- Albert Camus

Happiness is ... (Ingrid Bergman)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

- Ingrid Bergman

Two cheers for democracy (E.M. Foster)

Two cheers for democracy: one because it admit variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: There is no occasion to give three.

- E.M. Foster (an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist, 1879–1970)

Mother-in-law (Anonymous)

Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

- Anonymous