Lists
Quotables
The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government.
Past is prologue.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Act in haste, repent at leisure.
Eat less than you need and spend less than you make.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Movies to Watch
Hors de prix (Priceless)
French comedy w/Audrey Tautou - Rich man / poor man dichotomy.
Up the Yangtze
Documentary about the big dam dig.
Glass - a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
Reviews not too good - too reverent.
Standard Operating Procedure
Pseudo documentary on torture.
Books to Read
Black, White, Other - Lise Funderburg
The Logic of Life - Tim Haford
What are you Optimistic About? - Edited by John Brockman
The Big Switch - Nicholas Carr
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
China Price - Alexandra Harney
Middle Class Millionaire - Russ Alan Prince
This is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
The Bastard on the Couch - Edited by Daniel Jones
The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
Fiction. Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.