WIST

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.

Bob Hope (1903-2003) American comedian, actor, humanitarian (b. Leslie Townes Hope)
(Attributed)

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Gore Vidal (b. 1925) American novelist, dramatist, critic
“French Letters: Theories of the New Novel,” Encounter (Dec 1967)

In enthusiasm we undulate to the divine spiritus — as the lake to the wind.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (16 Dec 1840)

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterward looks for victory.

Sun-Tzu (fl. 6th C. AD) Chinese general and philosopher [a.k.a. Sun Wu]
The Art of War

Can you think that whatever made us — would stop trying?

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden (1952)

I’ve added a search plug-in for WIST to the Mycroft Project, which hosts search engine plug-ins for Firefox and for IE.

The plug-in does a quotation text search. That means it won’t search for author info — a side effect of the way I’ve implemented the authors as categories in WordPress.

You can find the plug-in here.  Enjoy!