My own(that is, I haven't seen them anywhere else...
if I have found a similar version later, then it is listed below that quote):
"Capoeira is like playing the piano.
First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
"Love is like playing the piano.
First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-Unkown
"Any sufficiently advanced Being is
indistinguishable from God."
Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence
is indistinguishable from God.
- Shermer's Last Law
Populaarimusiikkia on musiikki,
missä on kertosäkeistöjä.
En väitä tietäväni että Jumalaa ei olisi olemassa.
En myöskään väitä tietäväni Joulupukin olevan taruolento.
Kummankaan olemassaolosta minulla ei ole kuitenkaan todisteita,
joten ei ole syytä miksi pitäisin väitteitä tosina.
Kun ymmärrät miksi en usko toiseen väitteistä,
niin pystyt ehkä ymmärtämään miksi hylkään myös toisen.
Ei ole olemassa realisteja ja idealisteja,
vain pessimistejä ja optimisteja.
There are no realists and idealists,
only pessimists and optimists.
Ärsyttävää. Maailmassa on 5 miljardia välinpitämätöntä
ihmistä! Ethän sinä ole yksi heistä?
Luonnosta nauttiminen ilman luonnonsuojelua on hedonismia.
Variuos quotes I have found, in order of appearance
Only as high as I reach can I grow.
Only as far as I seek can I go.
Only as deep as I look can I see.
Only as much as I dream can I be.
-Karen Ravn
"To achieve all that is possible,
we must attempt the impossible-
To be as much as we can be,
we must dream of being more"
Terrorismia ei voiteta sotimalla.
USA:n pommit vain ruokkivat ääri-islamilaisuutta.
Terrorismi voitetaan kitkemällä sen kasvualusta:
köyhyys ja epäoikeudenmukaisuus.
Pauli Välimäki - pauli[at]txti.net
Nuoruus on ajanjakso, jonka aikana poika kieltäytyy uskomasta,
että jonain päivänä hänestä tulee yhtä torvi, kuin isästään.
-H.R.Everhart
Elämän tarkoitus? Teistä muista en tiedä, mutta minä etsin
elämän Perimmäistä, Suurta Totuutta, jonka olemassaolosta
tiedän vain sen, ettei sitä ole olemassa. Ymmärrän ja hyväksyn
tämän, mutten anna sen lainkaan häiritä etsintääni.
An optimist believes that we are living in the best of the
worlds possible. A pessimist is afraid it is true.
Se ei ole optinen harha - se vain näyttää siltä.
In an open world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows.
Uskovaisten kanssa ei voi väitellä, sillä he todistavat
raamatulla, että raamattu on oikeassa.
- Seppo Saraspää, syylliseksi epäiltynä
If you always do what you've always done,
you'll always be what you've always been.
Älä hylkää unelmiasi!
Kun ne ovat kadonneet, olet ehkä vielä olemassa,
mutta olet lakannut elämästä.
to be at ease with others, you need to be at ease with yourself.
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one.
Don't walk ahead of me
I might not follow
Don't walk behind me
I might not lead
Walk beside me
and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Things are changing
But nothing changes
And still there are changes
Most of the energy we spend
is like a footprint on moving sands.
Try to live your lost illusions.
They are the spice of life.
- Enigma 3
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side,
a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
All we are is like dust in the wind, man.
- "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
When I consider this carefully,
I find not a single property which with certainty
separates the waking state from the dream.
How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
- Descartes
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe,
and sometimes I think we're not.
In either case the idea is quite staggering.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-Niels Bohr
For every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
Täytyy uskoa joko Jumalaan tai itseensä.
Minä uskon itseeni.
- Elmer Diktonius
Tulla lujaksi, pysyä pehmeänä.
Siinä on haavetta kylliksi yhdelle elämälle!
- Tommy Tabermann
Do what you like so you like what you do.
- Sanni
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Tolstoy
What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Believe nothing because it is written in books.
Believe nothing because wise men say it is so.
Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine.
Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
- Siddharta Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Ann Landers
Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
- Unknown Indivitual
Stupid questions are better than stupid mistakes.
- Japanese proverb
Things should be made as simple as possible, and not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck
is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
- 3m
Is man merely a mistake of God´s
Or God merely a mistake of man´s?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
We are all atheists,
some of us just believe in fewer gods than others.
- Stephen Roberts
"Älä koskaan unohda sitä,
että vain kuolleet kalat uivat virran mukana."
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
Maailma on olemassa vain sinun silmissäsi, sinun ymmärryksessäsi.
Voit tehdä sen niin suureksi tai niin pieneksi kuin haluat.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ihmiset eivät kompastu vuoriin vaan kiviin.
-Intialainen sananlasku
Clarke's First Law:
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Clarke's Second Law:
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
Clarke's Third Law:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life
- much less intelligence - beyond this Earth
does not surprise or disappoint me in the least.
Our technology must still be laughably primitive,
we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms
while the ether around them carries more words per second
than they could utter in a lifetime."
"Odyssey" p390
"There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact
that flags will not wave in a vacuum."
- Arthur C. Clark
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself
and you'll understand what little chance you have of changing others"
- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
USA is a free country where nothing is free.
- tourist Guide
Jumala ei luonut ihmistä omaksi kuvakseen,
vaan ihminen loi jumalan omaksi kuvakseen.
- Aapo
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
-Edward Everett
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
- Fight Club
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"On paljon helpompi kaataa sata puuta, kuin kasvattaa yksi."
-Henri Frédéric Amiel
"Varman ystävän tuntee epävarmoissa asioissa."
-Cicero
"Emme pelkää kuolemaa vaan kuvitelmaa kuolemasta."
-Seneca
Ëi ole sanottu yhtään suurta totuutta,
jota ei olisi ensin väitetty järjettömäksi,
eikä tehty yhtään suurta tekoa,
jota ei olisi aluksi väitetty mahdottomaksi."
-Thomas Thorild
Üneksi niinkuin eläisit ikuisesti,
elä niinkuin kuolisit tänään."
-James Dean-
"Tiedän vain yhden asian, sen etten tiedä."
-Sokrates
"-Jos tapat yhden ihmisen, olet murhaaja
-Jos tapat satoja ihmisiä, olet valloittaja
-Jos tapat miljoona ihmistä olet jumala."
Ïtkin kun olin ilman kenkiä,
kunnes tapasin ihmisen joka oli ilman jalkoja."
"Viisas päättelee itse,
tyhmä seuraa yleistä mielipidettä."
-Kiinalainen sananlasku
"Kun viimeinen eläin on tapettu,
viimeinen järvi saastutettu ja viimeinen puu kaadettu.
Silloin ihminen toteaa, ettei hän voi syödä rahaa."
-Intiaanien vanha mietelause
"Vaikka tuhat ihmistä uskoisi hölynpölyyn,
se on silti hölynpölyä."
-Kiinalainen sananlasku
Yhtäkään lasta ei ole koskaan parannettu vihasta
muutoin kuin rakkaudella.
-A.S. Neill
Useimmat ihmiset syntyvät alkuperäisinä mutta kuolevat kopioina.
Olin ateisti kunnes tajusin olevani Jumala.
Ei ole konstikaan olla rohkea, jos ei pelota.
- Tove Jansson
Kannata ydinvoimaa - saat jännittäviä lapsia.
-anonyymi
Siveys - luonnottomin seksuaaliperversio.
- Aldous Huxley
Suuret ovat suuria vain siksi, että muut ovat polvillaan.
- Pierre Proudhon
"Oleellista ei ole se mitä ihmisestä on tehty
vaan se mitä hän tekee siitä,
mitä hänestä on tehty."
-Sartre
Elämä on uni, jonka itse luomme.
We create the dream, which is called life.
Jonna Häkkilä
On luultavaa että tulevien sukupolvien näkökulmasta
oma asenteemme luontoon on yhtä pöyristyttävää
kuin viime vuosisatojen ihmisten asenne orjuuteen.
-anonymous
Maailma on kaunis ja hyvä elää sille,
jolla on aikaa ja tilaa unelmille ja mielen vapaus.
- Ja mielen vapaus.
-Vexi Salmi(ei vissiin ~Eino Leino~)
Miljoonan vuoden kuluttua
maapallolla elää populaatio
joka jyrkästi kiistää
periytyvänsä ihmisestä.
-anonymous
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Life is an art, and you are the artist.
-anonymous
The Democracy: 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for lunch.
-anonymous
Fakta on vain jähmeä mielipide.
- Unknown
Politicians should read science-fiction,
not westerns and detective stories.
--Arthur C. Clark
"Millions long for immortality
who don't know what to do on a Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
"Help preserve your child's belief in Santa Claus.
Tell him or her that Santa will send them to hell if they
don't believe in him."
"Like all religions, the Holy Religion of the Invisible
Pink Unicorn is based upon both Logic and Faith. We have Faith
that She is Pink; we Logically know that She is Invisible,
because we can't see Her."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K. Dick
"There is not a truth existing which I fear...
or would wish unknown to the whole world."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told--and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion."-- Michael Crichton in The Lost World
"Religion is regarded
by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."-- Thomas H. Huxley
"Gods are fragile things;
they may be killed by a whiff of science
or a dose of common sense."
-- Chapman Cohen
"Whenever a poet or preacher,
chief or wizard spouts gibberish,
the human race spends centuries deciphering the message."
-- Umberto Eco
"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them."-- Galileo Galilei
"My young son asked me what happens after we die.
I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies.
I guess I should have told him the truth--
that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally--
but I didn't want to upset him."
-- Jack Handey
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God.
I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction.
The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus,
or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon.
But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other:
they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge,
and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Theologian: An uncommon individual who,
though possessing finite abilities,
has been called by God himself who,
though possessing infinite abilities,
requires the assistance of the former
in explaining Himself to the rest of us."
[Translation: if God existed, theologians would be out of work.]"
-- Donald Morgan
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser
than finding a truth."
-- Ludwig Borne
"Should we be obeying some old piece of paper
or should we make our own decisions?"
-- Arthur (the PBS cartoon character)
"Koulutuksen tarkoitus on korvata
tyhjä mieli avoimella mielellä."
--Malcolm S. Forbes
"If a nation values anything more than freedom,
it will lose its freedom."
-Somerset Maugham
"If growing up means it's beneath me to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up, not me."
- Peter Pan
"If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back to you, it's yours.
If it doesn't-it was never meant to be"
- Unknown
Si amas algo dejalo libre. Si vuelve a ti es tuyo. Sino vuelve, nuncalo fue.
About Human Relations
1) Speak to people--there is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting.
2) Smile at people--it takes 72 muscles to frown only 14 to smile.
3) Call people by name--the sweetest music to anyone's ear is the sound of their own name.
4) Be friendly and helpful--people will react in a like manner.
5) Be cordial--it will open the channels of communication.
6) Be interested in people--you can find something to like about everybody if you try.
7) Be generous with praise-cautious with criticism.
8) Think about the feelings of others--they will like you for it.
9) Be thoughtful of the opinion of others--there are three sides to a quarrel; your, the other persons, and the right one.
10) Be alert to give service--what counts most in life is what we do for others.
- easier said than done
Vastaus on ehkä ja se on lopullinen.
-Anonymous
Omistaminen merkitsee vain huolia ja matkalaukkuja,
joita joutuu kantamaan mukanaan.
- Tove Jansson: Muumipeikko ja pyrstötähti; Nuuskamuikkunen
Kysymys ei ole siitä, että löytäisimmekö jonkun
jonka kanssa on hyvä mennä sänkyyn, vaan siitä,
että löytäisimmekö jonkun jonka kanssa on hyvä nousta sängystä.
- Jens Locher
Are you scared to be, scared of what you see
Are you scared to change, scared to rearrange
There's a chance that you never take the chances you get
There's a chance you haven't taken any chances yet
-Clawfinger, Chances
Whatever belief you belong to there's still always a reason to doubt
and there's always another opinion as to what life is all about
There's always a bigger dimension and a different point of view
so I don't want to try to change you that decision is up to you
Whatever your final choice is and however you choose to live
-Clawfinger, Two Sides
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
-Albert Einstein
Look to this day,
For it is very life of life.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
- Sanskrit Proverb
Lue Raamattu, Koraani, Mein Kampf -
mutta ajattele itse.
- Loesje
Virtue is nothing else than right reason.
- Seneca
"It's not the things themselves that disturb men,
but their judgement about these things."
"Eivät asiat sinänsä saa ihmisiä menettämään mielenrauhaansa,
vaan heidän käsityksensä näistä asioista."
-Epictetus
"Emme lopeta leikkimistä sen johdosta,
että vanhenemme - vanhenemme,
koska lopetamme leikkimisen."
- Herbert Spencer
Älä ylpeile sillä ettet ole koskaan kaatunut,
ylpeile sillä että olet joka kerta noussut ylös.
- Unknow
Jos käyttäisin työhön kaiken sen ajan,
mikä minulta kuluu hermoilemiseen siitä,
saanko työn valmiiksi vai en,
minulla ei olisi mitään hermoilemisen aihetta.
- Unknown
Kuinka vanha olisit, jos et tietäisi kuinka vanha olet?
- Unknown
Mieli on kuin laskuvarjo: se toimii vain avoimena.
What is economics?
A science invented by the upper class in order to
acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass.
-August Strindberg
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain
than in the near certainty that people of equal talent
have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
-Stephen Jay Gould
If god is, man is a slave;
now, man can and must be free;
then, god does not exist.
-Mikhail Bakunin, "god and the State"
I think that god in creating man
somewhat overestimated his ability.
-Oscar Wilde
God is not dead.
He is alive and working on a much less ambitious project.
-Graffitti
All animals are equal
but some are more equal than others.
-George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-William James
"All men are born free.
Yet everywhere they are in chains."
-Karl Marx
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation
for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
-Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Christ died for our sins.
Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless
by not committing them?"
-Jules Feiffer
"I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-Beatrice Hall
"We might call ourselves human,
but we're still just animals."
-Graffiti
"Always remember that you are unique.
Just like everyone else."
- Unknown
Omaperäisyys on taito pitää lähde salassa.
- Kyösti Sipilä
Anything is art if an artist says it is.
- Marcel Duchamp
Maailma ei ole kauhea niiden vuoksi jotka sen tekevät,
vaan niiden vuoksi jotka katsovat vierestä.
- Albert Einstein
All cruelty springs from weakness.
- Seneca
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
- Henry van Dyke
Luulo on tiedon väärtti, niin kauan
kun ei vaan tiedä että se on vain luuloa.
- tuntematon
Ystävä on ihminen,
johon ei tarvitse yrittää tehdä vaikutusta.
- tuntematon
Ystävän kanssa kulkiessa on matka määränpäätä tärkeämpi.
- tuntematon
The universe is not only stranger than we think,
but stranger than we can imagine.
- tuntematon
Jos annat minulle kalan,
olen kylläinen yhden päivän.
Jos opetat minut kalastamaan,
olen kylläinen koko elämäni.
- tuntematon
Kahdesta pahasta valitsen aina sen
jota en ole vielä kokeillut.
- Mae West
Leija ilman narua on roska.
Kenguru ilman pussia on peura.
- Karkkipistooli
Älä tee mitään ihmisten mieliksi,
vaan vain heidän hyväkseen.
- Mika Waltari
What is the meaning of life?
Life has no meaning. It's just
a fortunate coincidence of carbon chemistry.
Forget about it.
- tuntematon
Eivät kaikki vanhukset ole viisaita,
eivätkä kaikki nuoret hulluja.
- Ile
The Bible is always right.
Even when it contradicts itself.
- Unknown
The fact that the Bible has been handed down to us
by rich and culturally dominant people,
is entirely coincidental to its monopoly on truth.
- Unknown
Never think that war,
no matter how necessary,
nor how justified,
is not a crime.
-Ernest Hemingway
Viisaan erottaa itsepäisestä hänen kykynsä
ajatella tänään eri tavalla kuin eilen.
- unknown
Anna tukea ystävälle silloin kun hän sitä vähiten haluaa;
silloin hän sitä eniten tarvitsee.
- unknown
Yksinäisyys on sitä,
että kaipaa toisia ihmisiä.
Yksin olo on sitä,
että nauttii omasta seurastaan.
- unknown
Tärkeintä maailmassa ei ole se,
missä olemme, vaan se,
mihin suuntaan olemme menossa.
- unknown
Ystäväsi on henkilö,
joka tietää sinusta kaiken
ja silti pitää sinusta.
-Elbert Hubbard-
Väitteleminen ihmisen kanssa,
joka on luopunut järjestään,
on kuin antaisi lääkettä kuolleelle.
- Thomas Paine
Are you man enough to hold a gun?
Are you man enough to turn your back and run?
Are you man enough to take a life?
Are you man enough to make one?
- Clawfinger
Math is like love,
a simple idea but
it can get complicated.
- Unknown
Tavoite ilman suunnitelmaa
on unelma.
- Unknown
You are not your job.
You are not the money in your bank account.
You are not the car you drive.
You are not how much money is in your wallet.
- Unknown
The things you own,
they end up owning you.
- "Tyler", Fight club
If you would die right now,
how would you feel about your life?
- "Tyler", Fight Club
"We shan't save all we should like to,
but we shall save a great deal more
than if we had never tried."
- Sir Peter Scott (1909-89), WWF founder 1961
"If you want to be free,
you just have to start being free."
- Some guy
"I have a dream today." - Martin Luther King
"Kadu mieluummin sitä mitä olet tehnyt,
kuin sitä mitä olet jättänyt tekemättä."
-Unknown, systeemiälykäs motto
"Think out of the box."
-Unknown System Intellectuel
Ainoastaan sydämmellä näkee hyvin.
Tärkeimpiä asioita ei näe silmillä.
- Pikku Prinssi, ketun suurin salaisuus, 1951
Kiire ei koskaan tapahdu ihmiselle,
vaan hän luo sen.
- Hellsten, 2002
If you stand for something,
you will always find some people for you and some against you.
If you stand for nothing,
you will find nobody against you and nobody for you.
- Bill Bernbach
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who
did nothing because he could only do a little",
- Edmund Burke
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
- Gandhi
Bush is proof that empty warheads can be dangerous.
Get the Empty Warheads out of the White House.
-Unknown
If War Is The Answer,
We're Asking The Wrong Question.
- Unknown
Let's Try Preemptive Peace.
- Unknown
"Only the tame birds have a longing.
The wild ones fly"
- Elmer Diktonius
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time
and your government when it deserves it."
--Mark Twain
You know that children are growing up when
they start asking questions that have answers.
-- John J. Plomp
"Flattery is like chewing gum:
enjoy it, but dont swallow it"
- Unknown(Nobuska)
"Usko niitä jotka etsivät totuutta;
epäile niitä jotka ovat löytäneet sen."
- Andre Gide
Silmien kauneus ei piile meikissä
vaan myötätuntoisessa katseessa.
Käsien kauneus ei piile sormuksissa
vaan hyvissä teoissa.
- Äiti Amma
"Jos et osaa selittää työtäsi mummollesi,
et ymmärrä sitä itsekään."
- fyysikko R. Feynman
"Will a man, given the history of a killer,
continue in that vein, or are we, in fact,
more than the mere sum of our memories?
- Dr. Daniel Schreber, Dark City
Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder
and sieve it through the finest sieve
and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy.
And yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world,
as if there is some...some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
- Terry Pratchett: "Hogfather" (a diskworld novel)
People fear the unknown,
the more we explore and know,
the less we fear.
- Jean-Francois Clervoy, ESA Astronaut
"Varaa aikaa työntekoon. Se on menestyksen hinta.
Varaa aikaa mietiskelyyn. Se on voiman lähde.
Varaa aikaa lukemiseen. Se on tiedon perusta.
Varaa aikaa unelmointiin. Se on tie tähtiin.
Varaa aikaa rakastamiseen. Se on todellista elämän iloa.
Varaa aikaa iloon. Se on sielun musiikkia."
-Irlantilainen ajatus
Ole se muutos,
jonka haluat nähdä maailmassa.
- Gandhi
"There are no great men in this world,
only great intentions"
- Anon
"What would we dare to do,
if we knew we could not fail?"
- Anon
"Make a positive difference by daring
to make your dreams come true."
- FDR
What ever could be done someday,
we can start today.
- Paul Eckert?
"When job stops to be fun,
go and find another!"
- Angie Bukley
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be ignited."
- Plutarch
"A report is not perfect when nothing can be added
but when nothing can be removed"
- Unknown
"Trust yourself.
If you don't, who will?"
- Unknown
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Some people stop playing
because they get old,
but they only got old
because they stopped playing."
- Unknown
Ei ole tietä rauhaan,
rauha on tie.
- Gandhi
Some see the world as it is and ask why.
I see the world as it could be and ask why not?
- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure,
and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
Faith is "belief in things that aren't based in fact."
Since God knows everything, he can't have faith.
And, because he's already the highest power,
he doesn't believe in higher power.
And so, God is an atheist.
- Shannon Wheeler's cartoon "Too Much Coffee Man"
Can all this just be an accident?
Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that
can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.
Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities,
an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines;
there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion" and
the intelligence of man would be left far behind.
Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
If your only tool is a hammer,
all your problems look like nails.
- Unknown
"The world is a book,
and those who do not travel read only one page"
- Sant'Agostino
Is necessary a real big storm in our lives to make us realize
of how much we worried about little dark clouds.
And when the storm stops and the sun arises again,
the world will not be world anymore but something better.
Science flies you to the moon.
Religion flies you into buildings.
- http://www.atheistbus.org.uk/
An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.
- Justin Brown
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
- unknown
If anything, an atheist has to be more morally responsible
precisely because we dont blame a god for our own actions.
- Ivan Ratoyevsky
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is.
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut/Yogi Berra.
Anna minulle tyyneyttä hyväksyä asiat joita en voi muuttaa,
rohkeutta muuttaa mitkä voin ja viisautta erottaa nämä asiat toisistaan.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit.
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The best computer is a man,
and it's the only one that
can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
- Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
"Most of our great social and political problems would simply evaporate
if all citizens had a scientific point of view."
-R.R. Nelson
"The boat is safer anchored at the port;
but that's not the aim of boats."
-Paulo Coelho
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
The mind distorts reality to confirm what it wants to believe.
- ?
If you always do what you have always done,
you will always get what you have always got.
”Kun joku etsii – käy helposti niin, että hänen silmänsä näkeeenää sen, mitä hän etsii, ettei hän kykene löytämään mitään, ei pysty päästämään mitään sisimpäänsä, koska ajattelee aina vainetsimäänsä, koska hänellä on päämäärä, koska hän on tämän päämääränsä vanki. Etsiminen on päämäärään pyrkimistä. Muttalöytäminen on vapautta, avoinna olemista, löytäneellä ei ole enää päämäärää. Sinä kunnianarvoisa, olet ehkä tosiaankin etsijä, sillä päämäärää kohti pyrkiessäsi sinulta jää näkemättä paljon sellais-ta, mikä on aivan lähellä, silmiesi edessä.” - Herman Hessen ihanassa kirjassa ”Siddhartha”
If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. - Osho
Kieli luo meidän maailmamme: Me emme kuvaile sitä maailmaa, jonka näemme, mutta näemme sen maailman, jota kuvailemme. - David Bohm
Don’t impose on me what you know. The world of your truth can be my limitation. I want to explore the unknown and be the source of my own discoveries. Let my richness begin where yours ends. Your failure is that I be identical to you. - Student's prayer
"He who dies with the least toys wins. Because the more you know, the less you need." - Yvon Chouinard
"Richest is the one with the cheapest pleasures." -Henry Thoreau.
"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things... it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." - Henry David Thoreau
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"You have never really lived, until you have done something for someone, who can never repay you."
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS GARDENING, AND THAT AGAIN IS NOT VERY IMPORTANT
"Our people need autonomy, purpose and sense of ownership in their day-to-day work. It makes a world of difference for the individual and the community." - Reaktor.com
Respect is a smile of appreciation. - Respect@CERN Le respect, c'est aussi savoir dire bonjour.
Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining. - Theodore Roosevelt
"Fear is just uncertainty and risk waiting to be dissected and analyzed and acted upon."
"Give me coffee to change the things I can, and wine to accept those that I cannot." - @onlythinkingart
"Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call "love" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle Morty. Rise above it. Focus on science." - Rick Sanchez (Season 1, Episode 6: Rick Potion)
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