Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Favorite Quotes
The happiness of your life depends upon the
quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain no
notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable
nature. -Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Character cannot be developed in ease and
quiet. Only through experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition
inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Adams
Keller (1880-1968)
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly
heroic transformation of consciousness. -Joseph
Campbell
Life is either a daring adventure or it is
nothing. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
Our sincerest laughter \ With some pain is
fraught; \ Our sweetest songs are those that tell
of saddest thought. -Shelley
Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or
man. There is no difference there between a cat or
a man. The idea of difference is a human
conception for man's own advantage. -Sri Aurobindo
When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart
she produces a philosopher to speak her
mind. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but
looking together in the same direction."
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk
on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese
proverb
If you love something, set it free. If it comes
back, it was, and alway serious money, that can be
intellectually stimulating s will be yours. If it
never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
We shall never cease from exploration \ And the
end of all our exploring \ Will be to arrive where
we started \ And know the place for the first
time. -T.S. Eliot
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one
can take it away from him. An investment of
knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin
Franklin
I like simple, if it's complex then I don't
understand it. -Seymour Cray, inventor of the Cray
supercomputer
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Rabindranath
Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)
some things are within our control, and some
things are not. It is only after you have faced up
to this fundamental rule and learned to
distinguish between what you can and can't control
that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness
become possible. accomplishing what can be
accomplished and abandoning unproductive worry
over what cannot.
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt
with the heart. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
The way I see it, if you want to be entirely by
technology or replaced by a machine. The
repetitive work that people used to do in
factories is being done by machines or robots.
You look around the world and almost any job thatt
rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. -Dolly
Parton
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit,
they must be the right words shaped cunningly to
pass men's defenses and explode silently and
effectually within their minds. -J.B. Phillips
During the first period of a man's life the
greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once
the risk has really been taken, then the greatest
danger is to risk too much. -Soren Aaby
Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
The past exists only in our memories, the future
only in our plans. The present is our only
reality. -Robert Pirsig
The best lack all conviction, while the worst /
Are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler
Yeats [The Second Coming]
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that
makes the difference. -Voltaire
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in
which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other
pleasures fade. -Anthony Trollope
The illusion that we are separate from one another
is an optical delusion of our
consciousness. -Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of light--the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -James
Thurber
When we are unable to find tranquility within
ourselves, it is useless to seek it
elsewhere. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your
own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of
the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson,
American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it it your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me....
You brought another friend...
And then there were 3...
We started our group...
Our circle of friends...
And like that circle...
There is no beginning or end...
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
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The accusations are familiar. We of the West are
accused of sexism, racism, and imperialism,
institutionalized in patriarchy and slavery, tyranny
and exploitation. To these charges, and to others as
heinous, we have no option but to plead guilty -- not
as Americans, nor yet as Westerners, but simply as
human beings, as members of the human race. In
none of these sins are we the only sinners, and in
some of them we are very far from being the worst.
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You look around the world and almost any job that is
worth having - that can earn serious money, that can be
intellectually stimulating - requires a fairly sophisticated
kind of thinking. That's exciting in one sense because it
means that people don't have to look forward to jobs that
are drudgery. It's also scary in some cases, because if
you don't develop analytical skills, there aren't too
many jobs left for you.
I am not sure I can describe to you what being creative is,
or why you feel good when you've created something, but I
just know it's important. It's exciting. You feel energized
when you create something. I think it is a big deal to give
students a set of skills and an analytic background that
allows them to create things, to invent things.
By Deans Kamen
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Advice to young person from Leo Breiman
Take statistics, but remember that the great adventure
of statistics is in gathering and using data to solve
interesting and important real world problems.
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Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
-author unknown-
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Don't live as if you will never die.
Don't die as if you have never lived.
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I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance,
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Quotes from the Movie "The Matrix"
The movie is By Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
LIEUTENANT: I think we can handle one little girl. I sent two units. They're bringing her down now.
AGENT SMITH: No, Lieutenant, your men are dead.
QUARK: The Matrix is a euphemism for the government.
SUPERASTIC: No, The Matrix is the system controlling our lives.
TIMAXE: You mean MTV.
SUPERASTIC: I mean Sega.
FOS4: ALL HAIL SEGA!!!
TRINITY: My name is Trinity.
NEO: Trinity? The Trinity? The Trinity that cracked the I.R.S. Kansas City D-Base?
TRINITY: That was a long time ago.
NEO: Gee-zus.
TRINITY: What?
NEO: I just thought... you were a guy.
TRINITY: Most guys do.
TRINITY: You came here because you wanted to know the answer to a hacker's question.
NEO: The Matrix. What is the Matrix?
TRINITY: Twelve years ago I met a man, a great man, who said that no one could be told the answer to that question. That they had to see it, to believe it. He told me that no one should look for the answer unless they have to because once you see it, everything changes. Your life and the world you live in will never be the same. It's as if you wake up one morning and the sky is falling. The truth is out there, Neo. It's looking for you and it will find you, if you want it to.
NEO: You can't scare me with this gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.
AGENT SMITH: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
GIZMO: Goddamn, what I wouldn't give for a copy of that software.
TRINITY: Gizmo, you don't have the hardware to handle this software.
MORPHEUS: Do you believe in fate, Neo?
NEO: No.
MORPHEUS: Why not?
NEO: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
MORPHEUS: We are trained in this world to accept only what is rational and logical. Have you ever wondered why? As children, we do not separate the possible from the impossible which is why the younger a mind is the easier it is to free while a mind like yours can be very difficult.
NEO: Free from what?
MORPHEUS: Do you want to know what it is, Neo? It's that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad, driving you to me. But what is it? The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out your window, or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
MORPHEUS: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
NEO: This isn't real?
MORPHEUS: What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
MORPHEUS: How did I beat you?
NEO: You -- You're too fast.
MORPHEUS: Do you think my being faster, stronger has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you believe that's air you are breathing now? If you can free your mind, the body will follow.
MORPHEUS: Stop trying to hit me, and hit me!
MORPHEUS: Everyone falls the first time. If you never know failure, how can you know success?
MORPHEUS: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
CYPHER: Let me give you a piece of advice. Between you and me, if Morpheus says you can fly, I wouldn't go jumping out any windows to find out if he's right. Understand?
CYPHER: You know, I know that this steak doesn't exist. I know when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I've realized? Ignorance is bliss.
MORPHEUS: Do you now understand what it means when we say, if you're not one of us, you're one of them?
NEO: The agents. They're sentient programs. They can commandeer any software hardwired to the mainframe.
MORPHEUS: Anyone that is still in a power plant. That is why we try to be invisible in the Matrix.
NEO: The best hacking is always traceless.
CYPHER: I know what you're thinking, 'cause I'm thinking the exact same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it since I got here: Why didn't I take the blue pill?
SPOON BOY: Your spoon does not bend because it is just that, a spoon. Mine bends because there is no spoon, just my mind. Link yourself to the spoon. Become the spoon and bend yourself.
ORACLE: Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but it's tricky. I'd say the bad news is, you're not the one. Still got a lot to learn. Maybe next life.
NEO: What's the good news?
ORACLE: Same as the bad news, you're not the one.
NEO: Are you telling me I can dodge bullets?
MORPHEUS: No. What I'm telling you, Neo, is that when you're ready, you won't have to.
NEO: Whoa. Deja vu.
TRINITY: What did you just say?
NEO: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
TRINITY: What happened? What did you see?
NEO: A black cat went past us and then I saw another that looked just like it.
TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
NEO: It might have been. I'm not sure. What is it?
TRINITY: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
AGENT SMITH: Never send a human to do a machine's job.
AGENT SMITH: Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.
AGENT SMITH: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague.
TANK: Okay. Store's open. What do you need?
NEO: Guns. Lots of guns.
TRINITY: Dodge this, motherfucker!
NEO: Can you fly that thing?
TRINITY: Not yet.
TANK: Operator.
TRINITY: Tank, I need a pilot program for a military M-109 helicopter.
AGENT SMITH: Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.
NEO: My name is Neo.
LIEUTENANT: I think we can handle one little girl. I sent two units. They're bringing her down now.
AGENT SMITH: No, Lieutenant, your men are dead.
QUARK: The Matrix is a euphemism for the government.
SUPERASTIC: No, The Matrix is the system controlling our lives.
TIMAXE: You mean MTV.
SUPERASTIC: I mean Sega.
FOS4: ALL HAIL SEGA!!!
TRINITY: My name is Trinity.
NEO: Trinity? The Trinity? The Trinity that cracked the I.R.S. Kansas City D-Base?
TRINITY: That was a long time ago.
NEO: Gee-zus.
TRINITY: What?
NEO: I just thought... you were a guy.
TRINITY: Most guys do.
TRINITY: You came here because you wanted to know the answer to a hacker's question.
NEO: The Matrix. What is the Matrix?
TRINITY: Twelve years ago I met a man, a great man, who said that no one could be told the answer to that question. That they had to see it, to believe it. He told me that no one should look for the answer unless they have to because once you see it, everything changes. Your life and the world you live in will never be the same. It's as if you wake up one morning and the sky is falling. The truth is out there, Neo. It's looking for you and it will find you, if you want it to.
NEO: You can't scare me with this gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.
AGENT SMITH: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
GIZMO: Goddamn, what I wouldn't give for a copy of that software.
TRINITY: Gizmo, you don't have the hardware to handle this software.
MORPHEUS: Do you believe in fate, Neo?
NEO: No.
MORPHEUS: Why not?
NEO: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
MORPHEUS: We are trained in this world to accept only what is rational and logical. Have you ever wondered why? As children, we do not separate the possible from the impossible which is why the younger a mind is the easier it is to free while a mind like yours can be very difficult.
NEO: Free from what?
MORPHEUS: Do you want to know what it is, Neo? It's that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad, driving you to me. But what is it? The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out your window, or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
MORPHEUS: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
NEO: This isn't real?
MORPHEUS: What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
MORPHEUS: How did I beat you?
NEO: You -- You're too fast.
MORPHEUS: Do you think my being faster, stronger has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you believe that's air you are breathing now? If you can free your mind, the body will follow.
MORPHEUS: Stop trying to hit me, and hit me!
MORPHEUS: Everyone falls the first time. If you never know failure, how can you know success?
MORPHEUS: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
CYPHER: Let me give you a piece of advice. Between you and me, if Morpheus says you can fly, I wouldn't go jumping out any windows to find out if he's right. Understand?
CYPHER: You know, I know that this steak doesn't exist. I know when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I've realized? Ignorance is bliss.
MORPHEUS: Do you now understand what it means when we say, if you're not one of us, you're one of them?
NEO: The agents. They're sentient programs. They can commandeer any software hardwired to the mainframe.
MORPHEUS: Anyone that is still in a power plant. That is why we try to be invisible in the Matrix.
NEO: The best hacking is always traceless.
CYPHER: I know what you're thinking, 'cause I'm thinking the exact same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it since I got here: Why didn't I take the blue pill?
SPOON BOY: Your spoon does not bend because it is just that, a spoon. Mine bends because there is no spoon, just my mind. Link yourself to the spoon. Become the spoon and bend yourself.
ORACLE: Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but it's tricky. I'd say the bad news is, you're not the one. Still got a lot to learn. Maybe next life.
NEO: What's the good news?
ORACLE: Same as the bad news, you're not the one.
NEO: Are you telling me I can dodge bullets?
MORPHEUS: No. What I'm telling you, Neo, is that when you're ready, you won't have to.
NEO: Whoa. Deja vu.
TRINITY: What did you just say?
NEO: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
TRINITY: What happened? What did you see?
NEO: A black cat went past us and then I saw another that looked just like it.
TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
NEO: It might have been. I'm not sure. What is it?
TRINITY: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
AGENT SMITH: Never send a human to do a machine's job.
AGENT SMITH: Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.
AGENT SMITH: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague.
TANK: Okay. Store's open. What do you need?
NEO: Guns. Lots of guns.
TRINITY: Dodge this, motherfucker!
NEO: Can you fly that thing?
TRINITY: Not yet.
TANK: Operator.
TRINITY: Tank, I need a pilot program for a military M-109 helicopter.
AGENT SMITH: Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.
NEO: My name is Neo.
A list of quotes
Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the mission; everything else is secondary. Don't wait too long for the perfect condition to appear before taking action - there is no such thing as the ideal situation. You create the opportunity and make the most of the talent God has given you. At the end of your life, you want to look back and say, "It's been all worthwhile. I have tried my best."
Khoo Swee Chiow
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is a big difference.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
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Khoo Swee Chiow
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is a big difference.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
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