citaten en gezegden
Een aantal bronnen op het internet en mijn eigen verzamelingetje, voor het geval ik ze vergeet....
“I am Dyslexic of Borg.
Fusistance is retile.
Your ass will be laminated!”
“Spirituality is about God.
Religion is about the size of the congregation and the money they bring in.”
--
“Religion, like spamming, feeds off on self-deception.”
--
Vijay Venkatesh
“If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”
“There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
--
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
--
Albert Einstein
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us."
--
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.”
--
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
“One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.”
--
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
--
"...tradition does not arouse, but tends to rather to preclude, thought and reflection."
--
Emile Durkheim "Education and Sociology"
“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.”
--
Douglas Adams
"A man with one watch knows what time it is,
a man with two watches is never sure..."
--
Albert Einstein
"Sit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
--
“When cooking, never mix pasta and antipasto.”
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he said: "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read ... stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level ... stuff that will make them scream, cry and howl in pain, fustration, and anger!"
He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
“Wie de waarheid spreekt, hoeft niets te onthouden.”
“Inflatie is het opblazen van getallen, zodat je er grotere delen van kunt stelen zonder dat dit opvalt.”
--
Henri
“Hij die het hardste schreeuwt is als een holle eend, geslagen door een verteller.”
--
Chinees spreekwoord.
“Daar waar het leed aan het oog van de buitenwereld wordt onttrokken, is de hel het heetst.”
“Assumption is the mother of all fuck-up’s.”
--
Bad guy in “Under Seige 2”.
“Self-righteousness is the mother of all bloodbaths.”
--
PP.
“If the results of measures to be taken are known in advance, one may assume they are the intended outcome.”
--
PP.
“Van iets wat er niet is kan je niet bewijzen dat het niet bestaat.”
--
PP.
“De goden leven en sterven in de hemel, zoals zij dat doen in de harten der mensen.”
“In science, if the facts don't fit the theory, throw out the theory.
In religion, if the facts don’t fit the theory, throw out the facts.”
“Van veel gespin en weinig wol, worden de mensen langzaam dol.”
“When the truth destroys a cherished myth, print the myth.”
--
An old newspaper adage from the 19th Century.
“My employer, by Dutch law, will disagree with whatever I say”
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me,
than a frontal lobotomy”
--
“Ik begrijp wel niet wat u bedoelt, maar ik ben bereid!”
--
Held tegen ceremoniemeester in
Ravian: “De helden van de Equinox”.
“To announce there must be no criticism of the President, and to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, it is morally treasonous to the American public.”
--
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
--
“Ik wens je veel personeel.”
--
Japans gezegde.
“Ik wens je veel directeuren.”
--
Nederlands gezegde. (PP)
“Those who are easily offended should be. And often.”
--
G. Barnett
Na lang zoeken en veel streven,
Is hij eind’lijk zichzelve geweest.
De wereld zag het met angst en beven,
Want de kerel werd toen werkelijk een beest.
“Souplesse oblige”
“He who begins by loving Religion more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect better than Religion, and end in loving himself better than all.”
--
Free after Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms,” no. 25 (1825).
“Het Betere is de vijand van het Goede”.
“Vertrouwen gaat te paard en komt als een slak”.
“Heresy is a set of opinions at variance with established or generally received principles. In this sense, heresy is the price of all originality and innovation.”
--
Walter Kaufman in The Faith of a Heretic.
“Het centrum van het Heelal is iedere waarnemer voor zich, als je ervan uitgaat dat die waarnemers om zich heen terugkijken in de tijd naar t=0, de oorsprong.”
--
PP.
"Stupid people write stupid things, clever people write clever things, but for clever people to write stupid things, that takes religion."
--
Michael Stirrat
“Twee dogma’s op één kussen, daar slaapt de duivel tussen.”
--
PP.
"Een gezonde hond heeft vlooien, een gezond mens heeft problemen."
“El Sueno de la razon produce monstuos.”
“The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.”
“De slaap van de rede brengt monsters voort.”
--
Francisco de Goya.
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
--
George Burns.
"One person's trash is another person's treasure."
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
“Een kameel is een paard, ontworpen door een commissie.”
“Godsdienstvrijheid: Het recht om anderen te beperken in hun vrijheden op basis van het geloof.”
--
Ebru Umar, 2007-07-27.
“In the Physics way, we, as individual observers, are at the centre of our own individual event horizons and thus at the centre of it all. This however does not imply that we are at the centre of attention, except maybe for our own.”
--
PP, 2007-08.
“In natuurkundige zin staan wij, als individuele waarnemers, in de centra van onze eigen gebeurtenishorizonnen en alszodanig in het centrum van het al. Dit betekent echter niet automatisch dat wij in het centrum der belangstelling staan, anders dan misschien onze eigen.”
--
PP, 2007-08.
“Voor een hamer is ieder probleem een spijker.”
“Old sins cast long shadows.”
"Heeft u nooit antibiotica gehad?
Wilt u dan alstublieft nu dood neervallen."
--
Vincent Icke.
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
--
Thomas Jefferson.
“Wie appelen vaart, die appelen eet.”
zero tolerance = zero intelligence
"Zero tolerance" is a bogus policy employed to save lazy and timid administrators from having to exercise their own judgement or stand up for their decisions.
"Mac users love their Macs, PC users accept their PC’s."
“There is only one cure for poverty, and that is the liberation of women.”
--
Christopher Hitchens
“Succes heeft vele ouders, een mislukking is altijd een wees.”
“That is something that's very easy to do, especially as you get more experience... making it harder than it should be.”
--
John C. Welch
”Everyone is allowed their own opinion, they are not allowed their own facts.”
--
Daniel Moynihan
“A simple carpenters son who learns to do tricks like that and doesn’t go into show business???”
--
Arnold J. Rimmer, 3x10^6 AD.
“Molligheid is des duivels oorkussen.”
--
Arie Dolk
“There is a logical pathway that goes from implicit religious faith to doing terrible, terrible things. There is no logical pathway that goes from atheism to doing terrible, terrible things.”
--
Richard Dawkins, 2008-04-19.
“A closed mouth gathers no feet.”
“Het grote nadeel van een kennisleeg hoofd is dat er nooit een lampje gaat branden.”
--
Jan Paalman, 2008-05-17.
Wellicht komt ooit de dag dat machines dieper denken dan wij. Dan zullen er ongetwijfeld onderwijsgoeroes opstaan die beweren dat we maar beter ons verstand kunnen inleveren.
--
Jan Paalman, 2008-05-17.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
--
Richard Jackson, 1759, though he may not be the originator.
First date on the quote is 1755, text included in 1759 publication.
This quote is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
"In our society we have no major crimes... but we do have a detention camp full of would-be criminals."
--
Philip K. Dick, 1956. From a short-story about precognition (Minority Report).
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
--
Heinrich Heine
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
--
- S. Holmes
“Dogma and ideology poison everything.”
--
PP.
“I refuse to commit to the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.“
--
Carl Gustav Jung
“If you lay down with dogs, you're bound to get fleas.”
“Personally, I think it's far worse to confuse the Bible for a Science Textbook than tuna for chicken. At least tuna and chicken are related.”
--
“Self-righteousness is the bedrock of true evil.”
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way but I mean that in a big way.”
--
Steve Jobs
“God straft onmiddelijk”
--
Nederlands volksgezegde
“God straft bij voorbaat”
--
PP
“You know, we’ve all heard some fundamentalist minded person say: Don’t tell me that I’m related to monkeys! But now that we understand DNA and have cracked its code, we know that we’re not just related to monkeys, we’re related to zucchinis, so let’s get over it.”
--
a pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Een sterke betrokken vrouw is een emotionele bitch en een sterke betrokken man is een goede bestuurder. Hoezo vooruitgang?
--
Fatima Elatik, 2009-10.
“He who looks at genius through the eyes of envy will call it arrogance.”
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.”
--
Old Hollywood saying.
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
--
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
