Let’s see how quickly this goes round the weblog world:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Couldn’t happen on a better day as I just came in with this big heavy bag of books, starting to move my tech library from home to office.
Here you go:
I said: maybe that is the right thing to do, but maybe not.
Fabulous quote, isn’t it? ;-)
From Lou Gerstner’s Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround. I read this during a holiday last year and found it entertaining and in many ways enlightening.
bertrand's brain grep 
Nearest book, page 23, sentence 5
Nearest book, page 23, sentence 5 It is at its best when sprinkled over a salad just before serving. Wow. That was moving. (The Encyclopedia of Herbs, Spices & Flavorings, by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz) If only I was sitting in some other room at the time…