Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -- Dale Carnegie

``Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as `empty,\' `meaningless,\' or `dishonest,\' and scorn to use them. No matter how `pure\' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.\'\'
-- Lazarus Long


If you\'re not corrupt, you just don\'t have enough power.

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy

Do only what only you can do. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) when asked how to select a topic for research

Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.

Don\'t criticize a man until you\'ve walked a mile in his shoes, that way when you criticize him you\'re a mile away and have his shoes.

A man once asked Mozart how to write a symphony. Mozart told him to study at the conservatory for six or eight years, then apprentice with a composer for four or five more years, then begin writing a few sonatas, pieces for string quartets, piano concertos, etc. and in another four or five years he would be ready to try a full symphony. The man said, \"But Mozart, didn\'t you write a symphony at age eight?\" Mozart replied, \"Yes, but I didn\'t have to ask how.\"

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Uhni má milá z cestičky, nemám brzdové destičky.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

\"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.\", Oscar Wilde

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
-- Arabian proverb