Recopilación de aforismos 2003

Sacha Guitry: “La diferencia entre un hombre inteligente y un necio reside en que el primero se recupera más o menos difícilmente de sus fracasos, mientras que el segundo no se recupera nunca de sus éxitos”

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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite

simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

--Thomas J. Watson

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"Being defeated appears to be an inexhaustible wellspring of

intellectual progress."

(Reinhart Koselleck)

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"People only see what they are prepared to see."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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"The only true exploration, the only real Fountain of Youth, will not be in visiting foreign lands, but in having other eyes, in looking at the universe through the eyes of others."

(Marcel Proust)

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"People like being part of a community in which they

compete for their peers' esteem. People want to believe

that they're working -- and competing -- with the best

people in their field."

-- Eric S. Raymond, open-source software advocate

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>>"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can

>>only exist until the voters discover

>>that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the

>>public treasury. From that moment on,

>>the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most

>>benefits from the public treasury, with the

>>result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy,

>>(which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

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>>"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two

>>hundred years. These nations have progressed

>>through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from

>>spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty;

>>from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency; from

>>complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence,

>>from dependence back into bondage."

A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler, circa

1787, Re: The Fall of the Athenian Republic.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain

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"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others"
-Thomas Alva Edison, GE Founder

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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a

discussion."

-- (G.K. Chesterton)

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En la vida no hay soluciones, sino fuerzas en marcha.
Es preciso crearlas, y las soluciones vienen.
Antoine de Saint-Éxupery

Si deseas que tus sueños se hagan realidad, ¡despierta!

Ambrose Bierce

"Háblame y quizás lo olvide. Enséñame y quizás recuerde. Particípame y aprenderé" (Benjamín Franklin)

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"I THINK PERFECTIONISM is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it."
-- Anne Lamott, writer, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,

and wrong."

-- H.L. Mencken

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can

alter his life by altering his attitude." (William James)

"I don't think being funny is anyone's first choice." (Woody Allen)

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more

>uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right

>and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of

>men who doubted current moral values, not of men who tried to enforce them.

>The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. -- H. L. Mencken

"Uno sabe que el mundo se ha vuelto loco cuando el mejor rapero es

> > > blanco,

> > > el mejor golfista es negro, los suizos ganan la Copa América de vela,

> > > Francia acusa a EEUU de arrogancia y los alemanes no quieren ir a la

> > > guerra".

> > >

> > > --

Ø > > Carme Roman

Antes de abril 2003 :

Citas: La vida es maravillosa si no se le tiene miedo.
Charles Chaplin

Para explicar la relatividad, Einstein daba el ejemplo de
los trenes. Si usted esta en un tren detenido en una
estacion, al lado de otro, cuando uno de ellos avanza
usted no puede saber si esta en el tren detenido o en el
que circula. Por que? Porque no tiene ningun punto fijo
que le sirva de referencia. Sin eso, estamos perdidos. Un
buen periodico es aquel que sirve de punto fijo a los
ciudadanos.

I.Ramonet

Enviat

Desconfíen del rencor de los solitarios que dan la espalda al amor, a la ambición, a la sociedad. Se vengarán un día de haber renunciado a todo eso.
-- E.M.Cioran

En un mundo sin melancolía los ruiseñores se pondrían a eructar.

-- E.M.Cioran

Hicimos la civilización para impresionar a nuestras novias
-- Orson Welles

La historia del mundo es la suma de aquello que hubiera sido evitable
-- Bertrand Russell

El que lee mucho y anda mucho; ve mucho y sabe mucho.

-- Cervantes

¡Si sólo Dios me diera una señal clara! Como depositar a mi nombre una enorme suma de dinero en un banco suizo".
- Woody Allen

" El sexo es lo mas divertido que se puede hacer sin reir"

-Woody Allen

"Allan: If that plane leaves the ground, and you're not on it with him, you'll regret it - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
Linda: That's beautiful!
Allan: It's from Casablanca; I waited my whole life to say it."

-Sueños de un seductor. Woody Allen

"Israelitas, cristianos y musulmanes profesan la inmortalidad, pero la veneración que tributan al primer siglo prueba que sólo creen en él, ya que destinan todo lo demás, en número infinito, a premiarlo o castigarlo".

-Jorge Luis Borges

"Si no creemos en la libertad de expresión para aquellas personas que despreciamos, entonces no creemos en ella para nada".
- Noam Chomsky

"Cualquier tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia".
-Arthur C. Clarke

"El primer pecado de la humanidad fue la fe; la primera virtud la duda".
- Carl Sagan

La violencia es el último recurso del incompetente.

- Isaac Asimov

La justicia militar es a la justicia lo que la música militar es a la música.

- Groucho Marx

"Me aparté de la filosofía en el momento en que se me hizo imposible descubrir en Kant ninguna debilidad humana, ningún acento de verdadera tristeza; ni en Kant ni en ninguno de los demás filósofos. Frente a la música, la mística y la poesía, la actividad filosófica proviene de una sabia disminuida y de una profundidad sospechosa, que no guarda prestigios más que para los tímidos y tibios. Por otra parte, la filosofía -inquietud impersonal, refugio junto a ideas anémicas- es el recurso de los que esquivan la exuberancia corruptora de la vida. Poco más o menos todos los filósofos han acabado bien: es el argumento supremo contra la filosofía. El fin del mismo Sócrates no tiene nada de trágico: es un malentendido, el fin de un pedagogo, y si Nietzsche se hundió fue como poeta y visionario; expió sus éxtasis y no sus razonamientos.

- E.M. Cioran

"Internet es positivo porque nos une, nos conecta. Incluso a las personas
mayores. El estar conectado nos prolonga la vida y no solamente añade años a
la vida, sino vida a los años."

--Rojas Marcos, Luis

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common
sense."
--Gertrude Stein

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
--William Gibson

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--W. Edwards Deming

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then,
get busy and find out how to do it."
--Theodore Roosevelt

"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

--Christopher Morley

"You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not
professional' any more."
--Jeff Foxworthy

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
--Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected
in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer,
a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles to the gallon, and
explode once a year, killing everybody inside."
--Robert X. Cringely

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
--B.F. Skinner

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
--Yogi Berra

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing
knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be
ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
--Samuel Johnson

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Ellen Parr

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
--Malcolm Forbes

"That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they
remember everything and they don't drink all your beer."
--Paul Leary

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
--Anatole France

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
--Benjamin Franklin

[sobre ciència i religió]

Harry Block: Between air conditioning and the Pope, I chose air conditioning.

"Desmontando a Harry", Woody Allen

"Allan: If that plane leaves the ground, and you're not on it with him, you'll regret it - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
Linda: That's beautiful!
Allan: It's from Casablanca; I waited my whole life to say it."

-"Sueños de un seductor". Woody Allen