My Small Boat

The World
Love built a stately house, where Fortune came,
And spinning fancies, she was heard to say
That her fine cobwebs did support the frame,
Whereas they were supported by the same;
But Wisdom quickly swept them all away.
The Pleasure came, who, liking not the fashion,
Began to make balconies, terraces,
Till she had weakened all by alteration;
But reverend laws, and [...]

Ernest Hemingway was bet $10 that he could not write a story in six words. He won the bet with the following:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Chris Mullin noticed the following hand written note on an invitation to and event that he was attending….
“This is a very low priority. I suggest we pass it to Chris Mullin”

Big Whorls Have Little Whorls
Big whorls have little whorls
That feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls
And so on to viscosity.
This poem summarises Richardson’s 1920 paper ‘The supply of energy from and to Atmospheric Eddies’

A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.