Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ~ Lin Yutang
  • selected by Kalki
2005
I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life — for the past five years. ~ Steve Jobs (on the plans for Apple Computer to begin using Intel processors in its Macintosh computers)
  • selected by Kalki
2006
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)
  • selected by Kalki
2007
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
  • proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club. ~ John W. Campbell (born 8 June 1910)
  • proposed by Kalki
2009
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
Our civil laws will never be supple enough to fit the immense and changing variety of facts. Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
  • proposed by Kalki
2011
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality? ~ Scott Adams
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar ~
  • proposed by InvisibleSun
2013
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
~ Scott Adams ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
The best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.
~ Scott Adams ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.
~ Scott Adams ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space — does change the parameters. It changes the way people live and work. It changes things for good and for bad. But I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings — and the Web's a form of communications — so it generally should be good. But I think, also, we have to watch whether we preserve the stability of the world … We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"
~ Tim Berners-Lee ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons
~ Scott Adams ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
~ Tim Berners-Lee ~
  • proposed by Zarbon
2020 
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Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)

  • 3 Kalki 04:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
  • 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 This isn't really unique to architecture. You can say the same about any art form. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)

  • 3 Kalki 04:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)

  • 3 Kalki 04:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
  • 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar (born June 8, 1903)

  • 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 22:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 I don't really get this. Is she criticizing literature, or just praising speech by comparison? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

  • 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 22:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

  • 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 22:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

  • 3 Kalki 23:11, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 21:53, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms. ~ Scott Adams

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
  • 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything. There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.
~ Tim Berners-Lee ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 7 June 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
  • 3 This reminds me of the China brain thought experiment.


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