Quotes of quotes.
Or: The power of silence
i wish i knew or understood this, but i neither understand nor do i know how to deal with it. meaning can be poison, and meaning can kill. there may be power in words, but there is even higher power in what is not said if you allow it any meaning.
— one: the white flag
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Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
— *nix fortune
“In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy.” — Benjamin Franklin
Quote posted by Anonymous in a comment to a blog post of Bruce Schneier about a misquote.
Imagine what we can imagine!
— Arthur Rubinstein
A wonderful quote. Unfortunately, I could not find any indication of its source.
German speaking readers are invited to enjoy a literal translation: Man bilde sich ein, was wir uns alles einbilden können!
Ralph Ammer and Stefan Sagmeister: Being not truthful works against me
[For details see Ralph‘s and Stefan‘s page.]
Abstract thinking isn’t much in my line.
— Josef Teichmann, 2007-04-10*
*) In a staff meeting at Vienna University of Technology; translated from originally German “Mir liegt das Abstrakte nicht so.”
If you idiot call me an idiot I will happily be idiot enough to call you idiot an idiot until you idiot will never again call me idiot an idiot. You idiot!
[Humbly translated from a wonderful German tongue twister.
Wenn du Trottel zu mir Trottel Trottel sagst, sag ich Trottel zu dir Trottel so lange Trottel, bis du Trottel zu mir Trottel nie mehr Trottel sagst, du Trottel!
Thanks go to dieJulia for her reminder posted in Depperter Depp du!]
Today’s *nix computer fortune:
What you don’t know can hurt you,
only you won’t know it.
