brick quote #11
duminică, 4 mart. 2012, 21:38
So now, I have one last thought, which is that it really makes a difference what we say — the words that come out of our mouth. I learned this from a woman who survived Auschwitz, one of the rare survivors. She went to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old, and her brother was eight, and the parents were lost. And she told me this, she said, „We were in the train going to Auschwitz, and I looked down and saw my brother’s shoes were missing. And I said, ‘Why are you so stupid, can’t you keep your things together for goodness’ sake?’ ” The way an elder sister might speak to a younger brother. Unfortunately, it was the last thing she ever said to him, because she never saw him again. He did not survive. And so when she came out of Auschwitz, she made a vow. She told me this. She said, „I walked out of Auschwitz into life and I made a vow. And the vow was, I will never say anything that couldn’t stand as the last thing I ever say.” Now, can we do that? No. And we’ll make ourselves wrong and others wrong. But it is a possibility to live into.
- Benjamin Zander on music and passion, TED 2008
brick quote #10
vineri, 26 aug. 2011, 21:42
Rom: Hello, Leeta. Bye. [leaves]
Leeta: I must be doing something wrong.
Quark: I don’t know, Leeta. Maybe he’s just not interested in you.
Leeta: Well, I know he likes me.
Quark: Likes you, yes. But he’s an engineer, a problem solver. He needs a woman with a body and brains.
Leeta: I have brains.
Quark: Of course you do, honey. That’s why I hired you. Now eat up and then take those brains back to the dabo wheel where the customers can get a good long look at them.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 5×16 – Doctor Bashir, I Presume
brick quote #f
marți, 19 iul. 2011, 23:52
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: „I feed on your energy.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah.
brick quote #e
vineri, 1 apr. 2011, 00:07
Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a light bulb? A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send Bones to pronounce the bulb dead (although he’ll immediately claim that he’s a doctor, not an electrician). Scotty, after checking around, realizes that they have no more new light bulbs, and complains that he „canna” see in the dark. Kirk will make an emergency stop at the next uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb from the natives, who, are friendly, but seem to be hiding something. Kirk, Spock, Bones, Yeoman Rand and two red shirt security officers beam down to the planet, where the two security officers are promply killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured. As something begins to develop between the Captain and Yeoman Rand, Scotty, back in orbit, is attacked by a Klingon destroyer and must warp out of orbit. Although badly outgunned, he cripples the Klingon and races back to the planet in order to rescue Kirk et. al. who have just saved the natives’ from an awful fate and, as a reward, been given all light bulbs they can carry. The new bulb is then inserted and the Enterprise continues on its five year mission.
- via fortune.
brick quote #d
duminică, 6 mart. 2011, 13:50
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
- Frank Herbert, Dune.