A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I mean, it\'s 2003, and we don\'t even have systems that we can\'t leave alone over the weekend. Where\'s the AI that\'s supposed to do all of the thinking for us, so we can actually get some free time? [Okay, there\'s that little problem with it trying to kill off all humans, but well, I\'m sure they\'ll fix that in release 2]

Měl jsem opravdovou mánii dokončit to, co jsem začal, což mě často přivádělo do nesnází. Při jedné příležitosti jsem začal číst Voltaira, ale pak jsem se ke svému zděšení dozvěděl, že existuje téměř sto velkých svazků, tištěných malými písmeny, které toto monstrum napsalo, zatímco pilo sedmdesát dva šálky černé kávy denně. Musel jsem je všechny přečíst, ale když jsem odkládal poslední knihu, byl jsem velmi rád a řekl si, \"Už nikdy více!\"
-- Nikola Tesla

Ano, zname takove obory. Napriklad moje babicka mi da zdarma rajcata. Asi by ji meli zastrelit protoze rozvraci nase zemedelstvi. Take koncerty u nas v klubu maji dobrovolne vstupne, zrejme tim ruinujeme koncertni agentury, ale my uz jsme holt takove svine. Doknce ja osobne zdarma ladim lidem s jejich PC, coz urcite skonci tikajicim balickem od sdruzeni pocitacovych poradcu.
-- pizi

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

He was a very great artist at the business of designing aeroplanes, and like all great designers in the aircraft industry he was a perfect swine to deal with.

There is, of course, a good deal of explanation in the psychology for this universal characteristic of the greatest aeroplane designers. A beautiful aircraft is the expression of the genius of a great engineer who is also a great artist. It is impossible for that man to carry out the whole of the design himself; he works through a design office staffed by a hundred draugthsman or more. A hundred minds, each with their own less competent ideas, are striving to modify the chief designer\'s original conception. If the design is to appear in the end as a great artistic unity, the chief designer must be a man of immensely powerful will, capable of imposing his idea and way of doing things on each of his hundred draughtsman, so that each one is too terrified to insert any of his own ideas. If the chief designer has not got this personality and strength of will, his original conception will be distorted in the design office and will appear as just another, not-so-good aeroplane. He will not then be ranked as a good chief designer.

All really first class designers, for this reason, are both artists, engineers, and men of a powerful and intolerant temper, quick to resist the least modification of the plans, energetic in fighting the least infringement upon what they regard as their own sphere of action. If they were not so, they could not produce good aeroplanes.

-- Nevil Shute

It\'s nice to be important, but it\'s important to be nice.

The difference between children and adults is that adults have a lot more to lose when they screw up. -- Steve Alexander

``Do or do not. There is no try.\" -- Yoda

``Evil comes from denying reality. Period. You have to distort reality to rationalize evil acts.\'\'
-- Mary Gaitskill, novelist

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