Quotations Weblog

Since the TV season is over, I’m catching up on posting the quotations used in the CBS series Criminal Minds. Here is the second-to-last batch of quotations:

Stay tuned for the final group of quotations tomorrow. More Criminal Minds quotations:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

We’re finally adding new books again at our sister site, The Literature Page. Here are the latest additions:

• Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Charles Dickens
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
• Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope
• Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope
• The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Trollope works are by request. If you’ve got a favorite author we haven’t included, let us know! (Of course, we only publish public-domain works, so it will have to be something released before 1923. Don’t blame us, blame Mickey Mouse and Sonny Bono.)

John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential economist and writer, died this April of natural causes. He was 97. Galbraith had a long career that ranged from managing inflation as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration during World War II to publishing a number of popular books between 1958 and 1990.

Of course, like everyone else, I knew Galbraith chiefly through his quotations. Here are some of my favorites.

• Economist Urged Using Wealth for Social Needs – LA Times
• Wikipedia biography: John Kenneth Galbraith
• All of our quotations from John Kenneth Galbraith

Hugh Macleod draws comics on the back of business cards. It’s a creative outlet that works well for him and now, it is finally paying off. Back in August of 2004, he wrote a 31-item list entitled “How To Be Creative.”

• gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: how to be creative

This list is a treasure chest of good advice. Some of my favorite quotations are here:

See all the Hugh Macleod Quotations Here:

• Hugh Macleod Quotes – The Quotations Page

The St. Petersburg Times ran an article by William McKeen in which McKeen proposed that the Internet is endangering the joy of serendipity.

• Perspective: The endangered joy of serendipity

Anyone who has read this weblog or looked up a quotation on the Internet knows that his viewpoint is nearsighted. Our collection of quotations is more unique, up-to-date and accessible than any book of quotations could ever be. He obviously hasn’t spent hours surfing the web, finding unique and interesting things all the time. He was immediately blasted by the Internet Illuminati.

• stevenberlinjohnson.com: Can We Please Kill This Meme Now

• Steven Johnson responds to the endangered joy of serendipity piece, I just linked to, arguing that the web is a much better serendipity engine than the library (kottke.org)

Until we teach everyone the joy of serendipitous discovery on the Internet, there will still be people out there who think the newspaper, library and radio is better than what you can find on the Internet. People like McKeen won’t be able to know this until we teach them. The Internet is a huge bundle of beautiful randomness, but McKeen isn’t able to see it because he hasn’t had the “great change in the fundamental constitution of his modes of thought.”

It’s time we teach him and the rest of the people out there who still fear the Internet.