(NAME-MCE) Here's to the Crazy Ones

[Bill Howe]

Hi Susan ---

Thanks for this. I also found the ad on YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRxbgD8hZ8A&NR=1


I found one source on Barck Obama's site. Here it is:

from http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/alycerocco/gGgGXW

>>>start quote

*Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The
round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the
status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy
ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they
can change the world, are the ones who do.* ~ Jack Kerouac

The audacity of hope!

*"We need more folks in this country that got a good crazy."* Rev. Joseph
Lowery said after hearing Senator Obama speak for the first time. Good
crazy. The genius kind.

*Go Obama '08! *
**

>>>end quote




On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord <
skgaylord at makingbooks.com> wrote:

>
>
> There are certain things you can't help doing once you've been an
> English major, no matter how long ago. When I read the post on Here's
> to the Crazy Ones, the words didn't seem quite like Kerouac's. Google
> research indicates that it was part of the Apple 1997 Think Different
> campaign: short clips of influential figures in the twentieth
> century. They included Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, Alfred
> Hitchcock, Pablo Picasso, and several others. In the background was
> Richard Dreyfuss reading the following:
>
> Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers,
> the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things
> differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for
> the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or
> vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
> Because they change things, they push the human race forward. And
> while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the
> people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are
> the ones who do.
> -Apple Computer, Inc. commercial "Think Different"
>
>
>
> And here is Kerouac on the subject from On The Road:
>
> The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
> live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the
> same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but
> burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
> spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue
> centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
>
>
>
> in good spirit
>
> Susan
>
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Bill Howe wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >  Note: here is a reminder of why we do what we do (thanks to my
> > friend Ellen
> > for the reminder)
> > Here's to the Crazy Ones
> >
> > Here's to the crazy ones.
> > The misfits. The rebels.
> > The troublemakers. The round
> > pegs in the square holes - the
> > ones who see things differently.
> > They're not fond of rules and
> > they have no respect for
> > the status quo. You can praise
> > them, disagree with them,
> > quote them, disbelieve them,
> > glorify or vilify them.
> > About the only thing that you
> > can't do is ignore them.
> > Because they change things.
> >
> > - Jack Kerouac
> >
> > --
> > Bill Howe
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