Think of what is right and true.
Practice and cultivate the sciences.
Become acquainted with the arts.
Know the principles of the crafts.
Understand the harm and benefit in every thing.
Work to see every thing clearly.
Pay attention to subtleties.
Be careful even in small matters.
Don't do anything useless.
- Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.
- Einstein

Evelyn, a modified dog
Viewed the quivering fringe of a special doily
Draped across the piano, with some surprise

In the darkened room
Where the chairs dismayed
And the horrible curtains
Muffled the rain
She could hardly believe her eyes

A curious breeze
A garlic breath
Which sounded like a snore
Somewhere near the Steinway (or even from within)
Had caused the doily fringe to waft & tremble in the gloom

Evelyn, a dog, having undergone
Further modification
Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
In pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance
And other highly ambient domains...

Arf she said

- Frank Zappa, from the album One Size Fits All