Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Category: Books

  • Thought of the Moment, But Only For “A Moment”

  • Quote of the Day 18 December 2013 – Evidence

    “One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take…

  • Narcissist Q/A – Friday the 13th – What Compels People to Take Advantage of Others?

    QUESTION: What Compels People to Take Advantage of Others? I don’t understand. ANSWER: The easy answer… people are bullies and sometimes people allow themselves to be taken advantage of for fear of loss. The complicated answer… Some people (narcissists) feel they are better, superior, in a different class and while it may manifest in many ways,…

  • Tech Piece of the Day 12 December 2013 – Data Transport Protocols

    If we still have some vestige of the digital technological revolution of the last century, it is certainly the data transport mechanisms in use throughout the internet. Although maybe we should talk in plural because they are precisely two mechanisms we have inherited from our digital prehistory. These are TCP and UDP. Both data transport mechanisms have…

  • Poetry For My “Hatch Day”, Since 1959 – Bells

    “I Hear the sledges with the bells – Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To…

  • Poetry of the Day 24 November 2013 – Invictus

    “Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and…

  • Quote of the Day 19 November 2013 – Promise Yourself

    “Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the…

  • Quote of the Day 17 November 2013 – Greatness

    “Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become ‘one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention’: a rebel. …And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have … GREATNESS.” ? Nicholas Tharcher, Rebels & Devils: The Psychology Of…

  • Quote of the Day 15 November 2013 – Time

    “If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that…

  • Quote of the Day 7 November 2013 – That’s Us

    “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and…