Sure have been some great quotes this week! Thanks!
I may not post every day but wanted you to know I have read and enjoyed all your quotes!

That Montaigne quote is so "on." I know that quite often someone says something that makes me think, "I knew that but didn't know how to say it." And so I can use someone else's words to develop what I think. Very cool quote, oaklief, to finish up a good week.

Vickie, perfect quote for the end of your really terrific week.

I'm delighted that you're going to be doing this again in the next cycle.

Thanks,

Thank you, Vickie, for great quotes. I enjoyed them all, even though I didn't comment on each one. It's that time difference, frequently, what I wanted to say has already been said by the time I get here.

I agree a week of quotes..all fun and interesting to read. Don't you wonder sometimes how many eyes are reading these quotes and never ever post? Bet there are a lot of them.

The first quote, well how true, and I am chuckling as it's an excellent example of itself. You did have a rolicking good week there with your quotes. Enjoyed every one of them.

Marda, in January 1997 someone named Stewart (I think he was original owner of GW) posted that it was "statistical fact" that less than 5% of visitors posted 50 to 75% of messages...that it was a fair conclusion that "It was more and more personal exchanges between a few dozen users" Now I want to emphasize this is definitely taken out of context ...I don't have notes on what drew Stewart out from behind the scenes...but I think there was some brouhaha and he was backing up Spike in some way. but I found it so interesting I made a note. Also made a note that Spike posted that in that same month (January 1997) 1500 people a day were accessing GW. Isn't that amazing...how we've grown! Would love to know the figures for today's GW and particularly the GP but I'd bet the 5% figure is still pretty accurate.

Sorry to go off on a tangent here, Oaklief... your quotes were great. I can;t go look it up now or I'll lose this but I especially liked the one about Mondays...even though retired for years I stil dislike that day...are you the same? It's a day for those "impossible things",,,lol josh

Thanks everyone, The daily quotes mean so much to me and i do'nt always respond either but i think about them.

josh, did'nt see a tangent.That was some interesting stuff. Now i'm curious about the currant statistics too.

Mondays are not fun. Maybe we program ourselves to dislike that day and it sticks.

Josh,I wonder if that's true. It's weird trying to picture it.

What fun your quotes have been! Thanks for all of them.

Josh, If I'm remembering correctly Stewart was Spike. And yes, I'm sure there are many more lurkers than people who post. I know I'll go to a lot of forums & just read. Sometimes people seem to know each other so well it seem like an intrusion to burst into the conversation.

Great week of quotes Vickie! I'm looking forward to the next round.

Yes Andie, Bob Stewart was Spike - and it is amazing how many forums are still visited and dominated by folks who have met as GW/Forum posters years ago and are as connected as any small real time community, even if they never seen each other face to face.
Even 50 years ago is would have been Science Fiction/Fantasy to think of that.

Well I know we are,but what other forums are made up of those from years ago?

You are probably correct Marda, we are the Old-Timers here, but some of the specific plant/area forums appear to have core-groups from long ago. I check the Conversation side sometimes and find there is a lot of congeniality about.
HT people all knew each other from way back -the Cooking Forum is a pretty close-knit group, I know there are others, but can't think of them right now.

The thing is, with any inet site, to the sponsor it's not so much about how many people post, but how many hits it generates. If you've been in on it since the beginning, like some of us have, it's unfolded through the years like a soap opera or a serial western. There is a regular 'cast', extras, an occasional cameo, a love story here and there, homespun wisdom, silliness, some brain food, and a few of the cast have come out of or gone into retirement. Steady lurkers to some forums, aren't much different than viewers of reality tv. It's a socially sanctified window peeping. LOL

Thanks,Lilo and Andie...had not known Spike's real name...no wonder I thought Stewart was "backing up Spike"...LOL Those were very early days for me online and I have remained in awe of this special place I had found. josh