Quotes collected by Fernando Iannacci:

I don't necessarily agree with all of these quotes but I think they are a good start to cogitate about some topics.             Nothing that count can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts. -- Einstein             The electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of global village. -- M. McLuhan             We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -- Shakespeare             That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. -- H. Keller             The most beautiful thing is the mysterious side of the life. There is the cradle of life and real science -- A. Einstein             Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. -- Stanislav Lec             First appearance deceives many -- Phaedrus             It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.-- S. Moss             God must love the Common Man; He made so many of them.              Never put off 'till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -- Mark Twain             We are an intelligence species and the use of our intelligence quite probably give us pleasure.                In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good , understanding is joyous. -- C. Sagan             The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.              "Aim high, stand tall; live free, love all."             Today, the nation is "have and don't have". Tomorrow's nation would be "know and don't know"             Mathematics is a systematic method for coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence!             Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best -- Woody Allen             If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. -- Einstein             Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Einstein             Only a life lived for others is worth living. -- Einstein             The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible. -- Einstein             It's not that I'm so smart it's just that I stay with problems longer. -- Einstein              More grows in the garden than the gardener has sown. -- Unknown             We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. -- Native American saying.             Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding. -- Marc Chagall             Never hate your enemy, it affects your judgement.             All that is given is not lost             Friendship and money is like wine and water             Sky is the limit.             Beauty is in the eye of the beholder             Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.             Pain is inevitable, misery is an option             No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time. --M.Graham             The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt             The work without art is brutality. --Anonymous             Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.             Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mahatma Gandhi             Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. --Szent-Gyorgyi             Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.             The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne             If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing. -- Saying from Zimbabwe             Stop and smell the roses. --Vincent Seglior             We journey to learn, yet in travelling grow each day further and further from where we began -- Wade Davis             For lust of knowing what should be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand. -- J. E.Flecker             People of quality know every thing without ever having learned anything. --Molière (1622-1673)             The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.             Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine. -- J. W.Von Goethe             It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out, the uglier everything seems. -- Frank Zappa             Knowledge is power if you know it about the right person. -- Ethel Watts Mumford (1878-1940)             Man stays wise as long as he searches for wisdom; as soon as he thinks he has found it, he becomes a fool             The longuer the island of knowledge, the longuer the shoreline of wonder. -- Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970)             The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. --Oswald Spengler (1880-1936)             History never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes. --Mark Twain             Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. --Napoleon Bonaparte             We Shape our buildings. Thereafter, our buildings shape us. -- Le Corbusier (1887-1965)             Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent. -- Herb Simon             What comes from the heart goes to the heart             Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them. --Joseph Joubert             God favours no group, only religions do that.             It takes a whole village to raise a child. --African proverb             The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone         doing it. --Elbert Hubbard             If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. --Isaac Newton             Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body. --Sir Richard Steele             Reason is the mistress and queen of things. --Cicero             Great works are performed not by strenght but by perseverance. --Samuel Johnson             The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. --Ralph W. Emerson             Study the past, if you would devine the future. --Confucius             Even in the dark a little start shines. --Unknown             Do not wish for it WORK for it.             Lead by examples, not by force.             In opportunity there is challenge. In challenge there is growth. In growth there is opportunity.             The poetry of earth is never dead. --Anonymous             The strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink. --John Keats             The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. --Aristotle             Always be best and distinguished above others. --Homer             An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. --Earl of Chesterfield             A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. --Aristophanes             There is nothing like a dream to create the future. --Victor Hugo             The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. --Diogenes             If at first you do not succeed, try, try again. --Federico Iannacci             The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. --Ernest Hemingway             No man knows what he can do until he tries. --Publilius Syrus             The more we proceed by plan, the more effectively we may hit by accident. --Federich Durrenmatt             One should eat to live, not live to eat. --Molière             Tell me and I may forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. --Chinese Saying             Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one. --Calvin & Hobbes             Evolution is what happens while you are busy making other plans. --unknown             Nothing is more simple than greatness, indeed, to be simple is to be great. --R.W.Emerson             The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed. --unknown             Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. --Joseph Stalin             Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -- Japanese proverb.             Our job, as researchers, is to create new knowledge by stumbling across new things that haven't been tripped        over before. --Randy Goebel, At the opening of Computing Science Center at UofA, June 13, 2001             The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. -- Richard Cecil, 1748-1777             We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. -- Johann Wolfgang             What is not fully understood is not posessed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)             He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think he knows enough. -- Powell             To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. -- Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667             I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence. -- William Hogarth, 1697-1764             Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. -- Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824             Who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. -- Arabian proverb             All the armies on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.             Hate is what characterizes terrorists. It succeeds when it enters your hearts. --Anita Mannur             Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre mind. --Einstein             Prescription : read a lot everyday it is for your health. --Iannacci Fernando