Posts tagged ‘short phrases’

Who knows

September 16th, 2009

who knows who knows

Imagine imagination

July 13th, 2008

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!

Abstractly speaking

June 15th, 2008

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.”

Provisional persistence

June 5th, 2008

It is easy to make something last
when you know it will terminate.

Me neither

April 1st, 2008

Apparently, some people just cannot accept criticism.

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The unknown can hurt

March 29th, 2008

Today’s *nix computer fortune:

What you don’t know can hurt you,
only you won’t know it.

A matter of position

February 29th, 2008

If you do not understand
be not surprised
to feel like running away.

And there is no but

January 19th, 2008

There is no but.
Things are as they are,
and that’s all.