User:Arjuna909

Aloha, bon jour, howdy, and selamat siang. I've been a Wikipedia editor since September 2005.

This is my page. Behave yourself.

Status
I was on an extended Wikipedia break, but now I'm back.

Aphorisms
"In life, as in rhythm, if you know where the beat is going to land, you can jump on it." -- Stewart Copeland, in The Rhythmatist

"The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted." -- Sun-Tzu, The Art of War

Live dangerously! Build your cities under Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Soon the age will be passed when you could live like shy deer, hidden in the woods! -- Nietzsche

He who is not a bird shall not make his home above abysses. -- Nietzsche

Don't watch out for people with knives; watch out for people with knives in their backs. -- Jim Kerr

Our life is what our thoughts make it. -- Marcus Aurelius

There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito. -- Roy Spim

We are all, at best, marginalia in another era's fossil record. -- James Hamilton-Paterson

We must keep watching, from the depths of a definitive silence, for the definitive event. -- Jean Baudrillard

Wealth, my dear friend, is not exactly acquittal, just a reprieve. -- Albert Camus

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is. And then walk off with the watch. -- Robert Townsend

Without deviation, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passionate intensity. -- William Butler Yeats

On the whole, you know, this whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid. Frankly. -- David Bowie

More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen

Links I like

 * |Animated Map of Idealized Hadley Cell Convection
 * |Conservation project in SW Papua (western New Guinea)
 * | From promoting acid rain to climate denial — over 20 years of David Koch’s polluter front groups