John McCuan's Homepage
or at least a start at it
phone: (404) 894 4752 fax: 404-894-4409
email: mccuan@math.gatech.edu
office: Skiles 265
The greatest danger is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
---Michelangelo
...nobody ever has time or can afford to do poor work; that poor work is affordable
is an illusion created by the industrial economy. If bad work is done, a high price
must be paid for it; all "the economy" can do is forward the bill to a later
generation---and, in the process, make it payable in suffering.
---Wendell Berry, Irish Journal
More Quotes
Truly, there are steps to be taken, changes to be made, but the last place we can look to make those changes is at the top of the political hierarchy. That only ensures that our drive for change will be converted to currency in ADM's account.
---Richard Manning in his book Against the Grain
A generation ago, the state of American beer was deplorable; watery, chemical-induced brews issued from the vats of a few corporations that spent most of their money on advertising, not quality. Of course, no one involved in federal policy was likely to do anything about this, even if one could imagine a federal government ready to do battle with the Coors and Busch families. The solution was a lot easier than that. People started local microbreweries, unnoticed except by a few customers in the towns where they started. They charged double the going rate for a glass of beer and people gladly paid it, and a movement spread, quietly, beneath the notice of the corporate world, until it was too late and the microbreweries had captured a huge share of the market---bit by bit, unsubsidized, unlobbied, with the simple expedient of quality.
---Richard Manning