You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
- Joseph Stalin

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Franz Kafka

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
- Vladimir Lenin

It has been observed many times throughout history that revolution tends to eat its young…

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
- Joseph Conrad

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
- William Godwin

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
- Georg Buchner

This week’s quotes will be devoted to protest and revolution, in acknowledgment of the global “Occupy” movement that erupted over the last week.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
- Nick Clooney

We were late posting today’s Factastical Friday Facts, so we thought time would be a fitting topic.

Australia has both horizontal and vertical time zones in summer.

Some modern atomic clocks are so accurate they lose less than a second in 400 million years.

Daylight Saving Time causes a 5% reduction in crashes fatal to pedestrians.

The length of a day is increasing by about 1.7 milliseconds per century.

The length of one day was about 21.9 hours 620 million years ago.

William Blake was considered something of nut in his own time, but over 200 years later, both his words and his art seem quite contemporary.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- William Blake

Every harlot was a virgin once.
- William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
- William Blake

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
- William Blake

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
- William Blake

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
- Niels Bohr

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
- Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

T. Boone Pickens – financier, 80′s corporate raider, and author of The First Billion Is the Hardest – is from the generation that had a propensity for what might be called hillbilly wisdom, as well as a gift for spouting some good business motivators. Here are a few quotes…

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
- T. Boone Pickens

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
- T. Boone Pickens

And some “cowboy comparatives”…

• Tough as the back end of a shooting gallery.
• Tighter than bark on a tree.
• You could be in paradise with a ham on your shoulder and you’d have something to complain about.
• Your face is so long it would take two barbers to shave you.
• He kissed his ass until his hat popped off.

As we all now know, the legendary Portuguese explorer was just that. Only a legend. He wasn’t even Portuguese!

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
- Christopher Columbus

And so he did.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
- Christopher Columbus

Especially if you call it India when it’s the yet-to-be-named North America.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
- Christopher Columbus

Which is why I ended up thinking I was all the way on the other side of the world when I wasn’t.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
- Christopher Columbus

Mostly by killing them for it.

Original Apple computer partner Ronald Wayne relinquished his 10% stock share for $800 less than two weeks after the company was formed in 1976. Had he kept his stake in the company, it would be worth over 35 billion dollars today.

Apple was founded at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos. In the bedroom.

In spite of being a multi-billion dollar company, Apple doesn’t donate to charity.

Steve Jobs was a college dropout.

Steve Jobs was a dyslexic pescetarian Buddhist.

Like Einstein, Steve Jobs wore the same outfit nearly every day. In Jobs’ case it consisted of a black St. Croix mock turtleneck sweater, blue Levi 501 jeans, and New Balance 991 trainers.

It is said that Steve Jobs was surrounded by a Reality Distortion Field

And a quote that might change your life forever:

“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked; there is no reason not to follow your heart.”