"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that
counts cannot necessarily be counted." Albert Einstein / William Cameron
"All your life you must learn how to live." Seneca
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the
other how to live." John Adams
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is
required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Thoreau
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." Ram Dass
"Ring the bells that still can ring; Forget your perfect offering;
There is a crack in everything; That’s how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
"Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives." William Wallace in Braveheart
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
Attributed to multiple persons, including Albert Einstein
"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." Michael Jordan
"Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you risk nothing, you risk everything." Unattributed
"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached."
Franz Kafka
"There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going." Unattributed
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." Lao Tzu
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious
you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in
the present." Lao Tzu
"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose." Master Yoda
in Star Wars
"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor
have no food, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camera
"Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it.
Tell them something new and they may hate you for it." Unattributed
"The liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means,
in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the
Press and paying hugely for the deception." Mark Twain
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
"Have patience with
everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions
themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do
not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could
not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need
to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it,
find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day." Rainer Maria Rilke
"Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and
talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little
intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of
privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing
but with no idea why they’re doing it." William Deresiewicz
"While we have gained some skill sets (multitasking, technological savvy),
other skills have suffered: the art of conversation, the art of looking at
people, the art of being seen, the art of being present. Our conduct is no
longer governed by subtlety, finesse, grace and attention, all qualities
more esteemed in earlier decades. Inwardness and narcissism now hold sway."
Christy Wampole
"The way forward is with a broken heart." Alice Walker
"Asking, we walk."
"Discover your formulas and abandon them."
"Your mistake was a hidden intention." Brian Eno
"Düşünde bile göremez işler; düşlerin gördüğü işleri..." Can Yücel
"Geleceği sat, yerine bol bol bugün al." Oğuz Omay
"Tasasız ve yaşama karışmış olmak gibisi yok." Seda Usubütün
"Bu dünyada neyi çok istersen, o senin imtihanındır." Mevlana
"Ne kadar bilirsen bil, söylediklerin karşındakinin anladığı kadardır."
Mevlana
"Aşk sandığın kadar değil, yandığın kadardır." Mevlana
"Her şeyin suç olduğu ülkede hiçbir şey suç değildir." Adnan Özaktaş
"Notre véritable lieu de naissance est l'endroit où nous avons posé,
pour la première fois, un regard intelligent sur nous-mêmes." Marguerite
Yourcenar ("Asıl doğum yerimiz, kendimizle ilk defa akıllıca yüzleşebilmiş
olduğumuz yerdir." Çeviren Oğuz Omay)
A comment on the smartphone generation by Steve Cutts (stevecutts.com)
My generation trashed the planet. So I salute the children striking back
Willingness to share ideas vs ability to generate them. Anonymous
"Why I am Opposed to the War
in Vietnam." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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