«Wo Weisheiten und Zynismus sich die Hände reichen ;-)»

• "Wir erben die Erde nicht von unseren Vorfahren, wir leihen sie von unseren Kindern." - altes Indianerlied
• Verstehen des Verstehbaren ist ein Menschenrecht.
  Martin Wagenschein
• Die Zahl derer, die durch zu viele Informationen nicht mehr informiert sind, wächst.
  (Rudolf Augstein, 1923-2002)
• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
  -- Milton Berle
• Mit all der Mühe, mit der wir manche unserer Fehler verbergen, könnten wir sie uns leicht abgewöhnen.
  Michelangelo
• Wenn überhaupt keine Winde wehen, hat sogar der Wetterhahn auf dem Turm Charakter.
  Lec Stanislaw Jerzy
• Als Christ soll man den Mund nicht weiter aufmachen als die Hand.
  Meisner Joachim, Kardinal
• Die Mathematik als Fachgebiet ist so ernst, dass man keine Gelegenheit versäumen sollte, dieses Fachgebiet unterhaltsamer zu gestalten
  (Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662)
• Einen jungen Menschen unterrichten heisst nicht, einen Eimer füllen, sondern ein Feuer entzünden
  (Aristoteles, 384 - 322 v. Chr.)
• Statistik ist wie ein Bikini: Sie enthüllt eine Menge, aber das Wesentliche bleibt doch verborgen.
  Aaron Levenstein
  
• "Was man zu verstehen gelernt hat, fürchtet man nicht mehr."
  Marie Curie
• Jedem kann es passieren, dass er mal Unsinn redet, schlimm wird es erst, wenn er es feierlich tut.
  Michael Eyquem de Montaigne
• Crescit enim cum amplitudine rerum vis ingenii
  (Denn mit der Grösse der Aufgabe wächst die Kraft des Geistes)
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus (~55 - ~120)
• Jedes Ding wird mit mehr Genuss erjagt als genossen.
  William Shakespeare
• Alcohol is the answer, but I can't remember the question.
  Unknown
• "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  
• "Wenn Du ein Schiff bauen willst, dann trommle nicht ein Team zusammen, um Holz zu beschaffen, Aufgaben zu vergeben und die Arbeit einzuteilen, sondern lehre Dein Team die Sehnsucht nach dem weiten endlosen Meer."
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  
• Röhrt im Herbst der rote Hirsch, geht der Bauer auf die Pirsch.
  (Alte Bauernregel)
• "Die Neuformulierung einer Frage ist oft schon der erste Schritt zur Lösung" (Frederic Flach)
• If history teaches us anything, it's that everyone will be part of the problem, but not everyone will be part of the solution.
  --Larry Wall
• Manager fällen wichtige Entscheidungen häufig auf Basis des Klappentexts eines Buches.
  (Christensen / Raynor) (*)
• Theorie wird mit dem Wort theoretisch assoziiert, welches die Konnotation unpraktisch hat.
  (Christensen / Raynor) (*)
• Als wirklichkeitsnah wird ein Praktiker zunächst das bezeichnen, was ihm zur Lösung seiner aktuellen Probleme nützt.
  (Schneider) (*)
  
• Es gibt nichts Praktischeres als eine Theorie.
  (Henri Poincare) (*)
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
  
  -- Thomas Jefferson
• Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit
  [ Add little to little and there will be a big pile. ]
• "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
  
  –Mahatma Gandhi.
• "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water."
  Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941); Indian poet, writer, philosopher.
• "It is not enough to have wisdom, you need to know how to use it."
  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 AC-43 B.C.); Roman Statesman and author.
• "Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD); Roman philospher.
• To be or not to be, that is the bottom line.
• Nothing lasts forever.
  Where do I find nothing?
• "Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste."
  Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790); US statesman, inventor.
• When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it’s probably obsolete.
  
  He who laughs last, probably has a back-up.
  
  Murphy Laws of Computing
• Anything is possible, but nothing is easy.
• "I promise an answer within 1 hour, and the correct answer within a day!" (the one-minute expert).
• Amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
• Do not hate your enemies, they teach you the best lessons.
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)
• A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
• Which one of my enemies told you I was paranoid ?
• The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
• The more people you add to an already late project, the later the project will be (Brooks' Law).
• A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
  -- Lenin
• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in
  this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
  -- Rita Rudner
• "Wer A sagt, muß nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, daß A falsch war" (Bertold Brecht).
• Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people
  standing in the corners of our rooms.
  -- Alan Corenk
• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of
  all.
  -- Peter McWilliams, Life 10
• As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
  -- Woody Allen
• There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
  -- Frederick L Collins
• I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
  -- Gary Trudeau
• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
  -- Mark Twain
• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
  -- Pablo Picasso
  
• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
  -- Sir William Bragg
• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
  -- Peter De Vries
• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
  -- Franklin P. Jones
• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
  -- Plato
• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
  -- Sir Winston Churchill
  
• There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
  -- Henry Kissinger
  
• Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
  -- H. Mumford Jones
  
• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
  -- Mae West
  
• I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
  -- Tom Stoppard
  
• It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
  -- Friedrich Nietzsche
• The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
  -- William Gibson
  
• A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
  -- Alfred E. Wiggam
• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
  -- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
• Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
  -- Andre Gide
• Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
  -- Robert W. Sarnoff
• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
  -- H. L. Mencken
• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
  -- Dudley Moore
  
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
  -- Thomas A. Edison
  
• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
  -- Jules Renard
  
• George Orwell was an optimist.
• UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
  would also stop you from doing clever things.
  -- Doug Gwyn
• Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out
  of the way.
  
• For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
  -- H. L. Mencken
  
• grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.
• If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
• Brain off-line, please wait.
• Comedy, like Medicine, was never meant to be practiced by the general public.
• I exist, therefore I am paid.
• Wasting time is an important part of living.
• Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
  -- Arman de Caillavet, 1913
• Adler's Distinction:
  Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,
  and from the bureaucrats.
• It would be nice to be sure of anything the way some people are of everything.
• The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days.
• "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
  -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards
• Woolsey-Swanson Rule:
  People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand.
• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
  -- Oscar Wilde
• Jones' Second Law:
  The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
• The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. The fact that it takes a little hard work from the programmer to make the computer do hard work should not be a consideration when the payoff is big.
  --Larry Wall
• For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
• Originalzitat Einstein: «Wann hält Ulm an diesem Zug?»
  
• Rettet dem Dativ!
• Festredner sind Leute, die im Schlaf anderer Menschen sprechen. (Jerry Lewis)
• «Eine gute REDE ist eine Ansprache, die das Thema erschöpft, aber keineswegs die Zuhörer.» (Churchill)
• «Der SCHERZ ist wie das Garn, das zerreißt, wenn es zu fein gesponnen wird.» (Bonaparte)
• «Je planmässiger die Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer
  vermag sie der Zufall zu treffen.»
  Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• A Day in the Life
  «Expect the unexpected,» said one computer engineer about her profession, and this statement was reflected on all the surveys we received.
• Wenn du ein Kind beobachtest, versuche an seinen Träumen teilzuhaben. Erwecke in dir den Geist der Kindheit von neuem. Mit ihm wirst du die Kühnheit zu leben und die Sehnsucht zu entdecken wiederfinden.
  Lama Dug pa Rimpoche (a High Lama)
• «Jedenfalls sollten wir in ein paar Jahren wissen, ob wir daran glauben können, dass wir in einem Universum leben, dass vollkommen in sich geschlossen und ohne Anfang und Ende ist.»
  Stephen Hawking
• Zensur ist die geheime Empfehlung durch öffentliches Verbot.
  Dieter Hildebrandt [*1927]
  
• Die Zahl ist das Wesen aller Dinge.
  Pythagoras
• Speer's 1st Law of Proofreading:
  The visibility of an error is inversely proportional to the
  number of times you have looked at it.
  Speer
• Gib mir einen Punkt, wo ich hintreten kann, und ich bewege die Erde.
  Archimedes
  (Gr. Mathematiker um 285 - 212 v.Chr.)