Katelyn M. Thompson’s Blog

This guy is hiliarous! He spoke at Emerson’s Commencement this year and was awesome! I’ve got to find the time to listen to the whole speech more carefully!

“I asked my friends, ‘What advice did you get on your graduation?’ 87% of them didn’t remember. … Which suggests my presence here is about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.”

–Bernard Cromwell, May 17, 2010

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“We are all children in various stages of growing up.”

-Doug Marlette, June 3, 2005

“Aaaah-choooo!!”
audience: “God Bless You.”

Ryan Brown, May 2001

“And with iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”

-President Obama, May 9, 2010

A nice visualization from Flowing Data of the differences between a first date vs. a reality show first date. Which gets me thinking, when is Tila coming back?

via Cool Infographics

“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.”

-John F. Kennedy

Since beginning at Staples, I have realized that I need to start watching more movies. I did not know the famous line “That’s not a knife.” Good thing I wasn’t hired for my knowledge of movie lines. Any who, Nathan Yau over at Flowing Data has created some great visualizations of famous movie lines. Unfortunately, the aforementioned quote is not included.

“Things are more like today than they ever have been before.”

-Gerald R. Ford

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

– Benjamin Franklin