Umeboshi Rice Quotes & Sayings

The Industrial Revolution was based on two grand concepts that were profound in their simplicity. Innovators came up with ways to simplify endeavors by breaking them into easy, small tasks that could be accomplished on assembly lines. Then, beginning in the textile industry, inventors found ways to mechanize steps so that they could be performed by machines, many of them powered by steam engines. Babbage, building on ideas from Pascal and Leibniz, tried to apply these two processes to the production of computations, creating a mechanical precursor to the modern computer. His most significant conceptual leap was that such machines did not have to be set to do only one process, but instead could be programmed and reprogrammed through the use of punch cards. Ada saw the beauty and significance of that enchanting notion, and she also described an even more exciting idea that derived from it: such machines could process not only numbers but anything that could be notated in symbols. — Walter Isaacson

Dinner that night is a feast of flavor. To celebrate the successful exorcism, Kagura has cooked several more dishes than the shrine's usual, simple fare- fragrant onigiri, balls of rice soaked in green tea, with umeboshi- salty and pickled plums- as filling. There is eggplant simmered in clear soup, green beans in sesame sause, and burdock in sweet-and-sour dressing. The mood is festive. — Rin Chupeco

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on. — Stephen King

It's better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo. — Seth

We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. — Nancy Gibbs

Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill. — S.M. Carriere

The passionate man seeks possession; he seeks to attain being. The failure and the hell which he creates for himself have been described often enough. He causes certain rare treasures to appear in the world, but he also — Simone De Beauvoir

I could still taste and smell and hear and see," she said. "I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you. — Elizabeth Berg

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. — John Milton

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends. — Joseph Barrell

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take ... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. — Rosa Parks

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do. — Tanith Lee

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow