Recopilación de aforismos 2004

'The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.'"

Robert Davies

"What you accomplish is more important than how you appear."

-Martin Bourque , Manager, SAS Institute Inc.

"Hackear" es hacer lúdicamente algo difícil.

RICHARD STALLMAN

"The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete."

Alvin Toffler

"Ninguna gran acción es hecha por dubitativos que piden la certeza”

George Eliot

Hay 10 tipos de personas que piensan en binario: las que si y las que no

Anónimo (frase en la firma de un email)

(...)las innovaciones emergen en un proceso iterativo donde los componente clave son la comunicación, el aprendizaje y la interacción social. Y no hay tu tía. Fumio Kodama insiste en que la visión tradicional de la innovación en forma de conducto esta siendo reemplazada por una de articulación de la demanda, donde los conceptos de los productos se crean para mercados virtuales aun inexistentes.

Confirma esta tendencia la multiplicación de focus groups, el estudio de usuarios líderes, el uso de la exploración activa y la experimentación y la creación de redes para mejorar el diseño de productos que acompaña crecientemente su despliegue.

Tuomi

Creo que la “identidad” no puede seguir viéndose en clave de “lo que

fuimos”, o sea, no puede verse, exclusivamente, desde la lírica o la

épica. Pienso que hay que pasar a repensar las “identidades” nacionales

en clave de “lo que queremos ser”.

Alfons Cornella

"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at

last it comes."

Mark Twain

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their

simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

No hay viento favorable para el que no sabe donde va.

Séneca

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

-- Anatole France

"A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he

did not start himself."

Mark Twain, in 'A Tramp Abroad'

"Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God [o el que sigui] speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in."

George Washington Carver

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who

conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over

self." -- Aristotle

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is

trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

Alfred North Whitehead

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its

creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

The liberal view is that realities must be understood rather than imposed.

Liberals Against Terrorism Wiki

"In Europe, phones are probably the only effort that can really compete with iTunes,"

Gilles Babinet

'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.'

Mark Twain

“Si lloras por haber perdido el sol, las lágrimas no te dejarán ver las estrellas”, decía Tagore

Una Europa pacifista dejó el camino expedito a Hitler: ¡los pacifistas fueron responsables de la Segunda Guerra Mundial!

Tzvetan Todorov

Dejemos de querer el paraíso en la Tierra y conformémonos con evitar el infierno: es menos ambicioso... pero más sensato.

Tzvetan Todorov

Lo que digo es que quienes creen encarnar el bien suelen sentir la tentación de imponérselo a otros –¡por su bien!–, incluso usando la fuerza: ¡qué peligrosa es esta tentación!

Tzvetan Todorov

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Dona Barrett

"el político piensa en la próxima elección; el estadista, en la próxima generación"

Otto von Bismarck

La habilidad y la constancia son las armas de la debilidad.

Nicolás Maquiavelo

La gran meta de la educación no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

Herbert Spencer

No me digas que el problema es difícil. Si no lo fuera, no sería un problema.

Ferdinand Foch

If your cool new thing doesn't generate enough money to cover costs and make a profit, it isn't innovation. It's art.

Fast Company

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the

usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody

thinks of complaining."

Jef Raskin

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a

full life and having no time. It is, rather, born of a vague fear

that we are wasting our life..

Eric Hoffer

If you want to understand cities today and especially in the future, keep mobile communications in mind. Ten years from now, understanding the way people use mobile media will be as fundamental to urban planning as understanding the buildings they inhabit and vehicles they use.

Howard Rheingold

Companies hold meetings because they cannot actually masturbate.

Dave Barry

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to

death."

Harold Wilson

Un fracàs és un home que ha ficat la pota però no es pot aprofitar de
l'experiència.
Elbert Hubbard

"The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the results in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality."

Alexander Smith

Behind every single thing you desire or think or say or do, behind the

feelings, there is a reason that is you. The more fully you live it, the richer life will be.

Ralph Marston

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are

always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell