Grain of Sand Quote - stolen!

I was amused to see an article come out today that used the same introductory quote as we did six years ago.  The paper from today is called "A world in a grain of sand: human history from genetic data" and is available from Genome Biology.  I would tell you what its about, but neither I nor the Scripps Research Institute where I work has paid for access to it.  You can however access our very cool paper called "Sand DNA-a genetic library of life at the water's edge" for free!  Oh yes, the quote is:

‘To see a world in a grain of sand,

and heaven in a wild flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,

and eternity in an hour.’

—William Blake from Auguries of Innocence

While I can't say which is the better manuscript, I'd wager that we win for most appropriate use of that quote in the intro. 

Dreamers of Day - repost

I came across this quote in a Bokardo post and it stung. Here it is as a reminder for myself not to take too much pride in unrealized visions; regardless of how clever they might make you feel at the time you have them they are ultimately nothing until they are brought to life.

“All men dream; but not equally.

Those who dream by night in the dusty

recesses of their minds

Awake to find that it was vanity;

But the dreamers of day are dangerous men.

That they may act their dreams with open

eyes to make it possible.”

T. E. Lawrence

Muir on Links

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

John Muir points out a fundamental truth of the physical world that seems to me to describe what the semantic web should be striving to achieve for the virtual.

Reminds me of what is becoming my mantra..
No more dead ends...