Great & Meaningful Quotes

[Sunny]

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way

 

[Mike]

Tell the younger people that you know, maybe
teens to late 20s.

"If your dreams don't frighten you, then
you are not ambitious enough"

Mike.

 

[Rakaia]

 

[Rakaia]

Alec Penstone WW2 veteran.

“I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives. For what? The country of today? No, I’m sorry, but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.”

He added that what they fought for was freedom, and yet now “it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.”

A British WWII Veteran’s Uncomfortable Question | Military.com

 

[officerripley]

"We have repeatedly demonstrated our species’ bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good...While it’s to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality."
~~from You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

 

[Paco Dennis]

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"(Often paraphrased as: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.") Mark Twain

 

[-Oy-]

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” Kahlil Gibran

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[officerripley]

 

[horseless carriage]

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Winston Churchill's assessment of Adolf Hitler.
Following the Munich Agreement in 1938, he remarked on the choice between war and dishonour, stating, "You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war."
Churchill also prophesied the Cold War with the line, "From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."