Quotes You Like

"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?"

John Cage

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

(Not word perfect, it's from memory 😯)

Frank Sinatra:
If you have a possession you can't bear to part with, then you don't have it at all. It possesses you.

Es geht nicht darum, mit Prognosen richtigzuliegen. Es geht darum, auf die Zukunft vorbereitet zu sein. Amy Webb (original in German)

My translation:
It is not about being right with the prognosis, but to be prepared for the future.

I recommend that article (https://www.brandeins.de/magazine/brand-eins-thema/it-dienstleister-2025/koenigin-des-digitalen-zeitalters-das-wollte-ich-schon-immer-mal-sein) to people who read German.

Be kind to your knees; you'll miss them when they're going.


-- moonbus

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

George Orwell

Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and pessimist:

'The greatest legacy I will leave my children is that they will never exist'.

(Questioning the purpose of bringing new life into this world)

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

― Plato

“It’s not whether you’re right or wrong, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong


George Soros

(relating to investments and the stock market)

'Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.'

(Winston Churchill)

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens
is the idea that there aren't any space aliens.
We can't be the best that creation has to offer.
I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

~ Ellen DeGeneres

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."

Thomas Jefferson

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

August Strindberg (Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter)

@Torunn said
Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

August Strindberg (Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter)

@moonbus said
Growing old is not always nice, but it’s better than the alternative.

moonbus