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Best wishes for the holiday season

By Frank ⋅ December 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

…with a traditional Irish blessing: May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been the foresight to know where you’re going and the insight to know when you’re going too far.

Working towards innovations

By Frank ⋅ October 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

You don’t know what you don’t know, until you know what you know. – Frank Nuijens

What’s an economist?

By Frank ⋅ July 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” – Laurence J. Peter

Original thought

By Frank ⋅ June 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

An original thought is created not by asking a lot of questions, but by having a lot of answers and being equally right and wrong. – Frank Nuijens

Diplomacy

By Frank ⋅ June 8, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.  - Will Rogers

Sports

By Frank ⋅ May 25, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

My sentiments exactly… “The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.” – Martin Mull

Truth

By Frank ⋅ May 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.   – Arthur Schopenhauer

Thinking

By Frank ⋅ March 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it. - Henry Ford

Nanotechnology

By Frank ⋅ February 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

When we gaze at the infinitely large, the cosmos, we get a look into the past. When looking at the infinitely small, the realm of nanotechnology, we get a look into the future. – Frank Nuijens

Expressions enrich the language

By Frank ⋅ January 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

As is demonstrated in the hilarious book by David Sedaris: In “Rooster at the Hitchin’ Post,” Sedaris once again relates the saga of his brother Paul — the estimable Rooster — who has gained a number of pounds and a bride-to-be, but lost none of his affinity for creative profanity. “This shit’s like making love [...]

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