Quotes by Doug Bradley

“I think this is going to turn out to be a bitter divorce.”

“Once we got down (to Florida), the $5 was a minor issue compared to other things.”

“What public universities need to do is be the sources of access, hope and opportunity for young people in the state.”

“With tuition increases, students from the lower two-fifths of the income level are coming to university schools with less frequency. For this state to be competitive, we need our kids to get degrees.”

“Were trying to add a little diversity to our campuses and gain a few brains.”

“Folks who enjoy national parks tend to be environmentally conscientious. So how can we serve seafood that is being fished out of existence?”

“Its too early to tell on some of this stuff.”

“Thats one of the best percentages in the country. (But) we are about last in the country in bringing in people with degrees.”

“We think we can raise our per capita income, build the knowledge base, the economy and get a little more competitive if we can produce more baccalaureate degrees.”

I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro (At The Holy Sepulchre), it opens more like a piece of modern orchestral music, and although it it moves toward Vivaldi’s familiar harmonies, there is always the threat that it will fall back into dissonance. The piece progresses in an exquisite agony, poised on a knife edge between beauty and disfigurement, joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Perfect.