Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Quips and Quotes

Forest arthropods project news

The Black Flies of North America published

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Entomology Web Products

Arctic Symposium at the ESC meeting

Summary of the Scientific Committee meeting

New postgraduate Scholarship

Key to parasitoids and predators of Pissodes

Members of the Scientific Committee 2004

The Quiz Page

Project Update: Other Scientific Priorities

Opinion Page

Bird-Associated Mites in Canada: How Many Are There?

Web Site Notes

Arctic Corner

Update on the Insects of the Arctic project

Selected publications

Selected future conferences

Quips and Quotes

Requests for Material or Information Invited

Those who talk to themselves are seldom interrupted (Anon)

He that knows little often repeats it (Thomas Fuller)

His only fault is that he has none (Pliny the younger)

A shut mouth catches no flies (Anon.)

"It was absolutely marvellous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid."

(Victor Weisskopf, in Am. J. Physics 1977)

 

"I can tolerate one or two mistakes, then I’ll cut their hearts out with a spoon."

(Katherine Harmer, CEO of Evolutionary Technologies International, on dealings with her research scientists, in the late 1990s)

 

Strategies are okayed in boardrooms that even a child would say are bound to fail. The problem is there is never a child in the boardroom.

(Victor H. Palmieri)

 

Failing organizations are usually overmanaged and under-led.

(Warren Bennis)

 

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

(Henry Kissinger)