“The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence.”

There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running,

Animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance.

Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity , of things one is not in quest of.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties).

Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.

Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

So, if you look at what’s common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.