Inspiration

Today I complete a chore I have been putting off for six months. It took 15 minutes. I will learn nothing from this.

- unknown

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

People wait all day for 5pm.

All week for Friday.

All summer for winter.

All winter for summer.

And all of life for happiness.

Don't let the pursuit of tomorrow diminish the joy of today.

On thinking ahead, from the novel "Artifact" by Greg Benford, a "hard" sci-fi writer who is also a physicist:

"There was a great mathematician named Hilbert, who telegraphed Berlin saying he had proved the outstanding unsolved problem in mathematics, a thing called Riemann's conjecture.  It has to do with the roots of a well known function.

He sends this telegram to Berlin, where he's going to give a speech. Everybody gets excited.

So Hilbert shows up and talks, and says nothing about the problem.

Somebody comes up to him after the speech and says, 'What about Riemann's conjecture? What's the solution?'

Hilbert says he hasn't got one. He was taking his first airplane trip to Berlin, and was pretty nervous, so he sent the telegram in case he got killed."