Dec
01

The Magical Season of Winter

Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days and the lowest average temperatures, which have the coldest weather. This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere.

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. (Willa Cather)

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. (Willa Cather)

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. (Stanley Crawford)

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. (Stanley Crawford)



There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. (by William Sharp)

Every mile is two in winter. (George Herbert)

Every mile is two in winter. (George Herbert)

Winter tames man, woman, and beast. (William Shakespeare)

Winter tames man, woman, and beast. (William Shakespeare)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb)

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

Grace grows best in winter. (Samuel Rutherford)

Grace grows best in winter. (Samuel Rutherford)

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:  it is the time for home. (Edith Sitwel)

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. (Edith Sitwel)

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another, and one century and the next.  (Andy Goldsworthy)

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another, and one century and the next. (Andy Goldsworthy)

When snow falls, nature listens.  (Antoinette van Kleeff)

When snow falls, nature listens. (Antoinette van Kleeff)

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.  (John Boswell)

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. (John Boswell)

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Nov
10

Quotations about computers, programming and internet

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. (Isaac Asimov)

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. (Isaac Asimov)

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.  - Joseph Campbell

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.


Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F. Kennedy

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F. Kennedy

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind - Joseph Weizenbaum

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind - Joseph Weizenbaum

We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins - Ellen Ullman

We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins - Ellen Ullman

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

Computers can never replace human stupidity

Computers can never replace human stupidity

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. – Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. – Nathan Myhrvold

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. – Linus Torvalds

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. – Linus Torvalds

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. – Abelson and Sussman

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. – Abelson and Sussman

Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz

Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz

Before software should be reusable, it should be usable. – Ralph Johnson

Before software should be reusable, it should be usable. – Ralph Johnson

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess. – Rod Michael

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess. – Rod Michael

Oct
12

Quotations about friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasgow

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - Apocrypha

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - Apocrypha

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Brandi Snyder

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Brandi Snyder

Friendship is one mind in two bodies

Friendship is one mind in two bodies

Friendship needs no words... - Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words... - Dag Hammarskjold

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. - David Tyson

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. - David Tyson

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All people want is someone to listen. - Hugh Elliott

All people want is someone to listen. - Hugh Elliott

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else

Friends are the sunshine of life. - John Hay

Friends are the sunshine of life. - John Hay

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked - Bernard Meltzer

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked - Bernard Meltzer

No man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall

Sep
07

Golden Fall

Colors of autumn

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.

“There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!”


Percy Bysshe Shelley


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)

- Autumn carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons. (Jim Bishop)

- Autumn carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons. (Jim Bishop)

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. (William Cullen Bryant)

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. (William Cullen Bryant)

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit. (Helen Hunt)

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit. (Helen Hunt)

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! (John Keats)

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! (John Keats)

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. (Doug Larson)

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. (Doug Larson)

Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist. (Takayuki Ikkaku)

Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist. (Takayuki Ikkaku)

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. (Faith Baldwin)

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. (Faith Baldwin)

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. (Emily Bronte)

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. (Emily Bronte)

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Elliot)

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Elliot)

Falling leaves hide the path so quietly. (John Bailey)

Falling leaves hide the path so quietly. (John Bailey)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. (Robert Browning)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. (Robert Browning)

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.  (Elizabeth Lawrence)

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. (Elizabeth Lawrence)

Aug
19

It’s all about money (Quotations about money)

Money, one of the earliest and most significant inventions of civilization, is essential to the development of trade. Money is anything that is commonly accepted by a group of people for the exchange of goods, services, or resources and repayment of debts.

Gold and money

Gold and money

Many of us are just too uptight when we think about money. Money is a reality, a permanent feature of our everyday lives. It gives our lives a particular rhythm, a particular «charm», a particular perception of the world and our place in it.

Money is capable of invoking the whole range of emotions. Money has been lauded and cursed, it has been dreamed of and disdained. What is money – good or evil? It brings stability and instability and makes people looking for and running away from it. Money is capable of creating and destroying, of uniting and disuniting. It makes people partners and rivals and can influence the fate of individuals and whole nations. But what does money bring – freedom or dependence? People obtain money working hard and playing and spend it with joy and sadness. Man makes money, and money makes man: it forms his way of living and his way of thinking.

Time is money. (Benjamin Franklin)

Time is money. (Benjamin Franklin)

“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson

If you can grasp the idea that money is not real, you will grow rich faster. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

If you can grasp the idea that money is not real, you will grow rich faster. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick

Money often costs too much. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Money often costs too much. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like” – Will Smith

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. (Voltaire)

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. (Pablo Picasso)

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. (Pablo Picasso)

“The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.” – Katherine Whitehorn

Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)

Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)

“There are two ways to really know people. One is to live with them; the other is to handle their money” – John D. Spooner

A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin)

A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin)

“Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back.”— Author Unknown

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” – Benjamin Franklin

The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. (IRS auditor)

The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. (IRS auditor)

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There’s no time to do both – Edouard Bourdet.

If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.  (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand

Money will come when you are doing the right thing. (Mike Phillips)

Money will come when you are doing the right thing. (Mike Phillips)

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.” – Errol Flynn

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. (Charles Dickens)

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. (Charles Dickens)

“Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.” – Owen Laughlin

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)

Money is always there but the pockets change. – Gertrude Stein

Money frees you from doing things you dislike.  (Groucho Marx)

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. (Groucho Marx)

There are people who have money and people who are rich. – Coco Chanel

Money is the best deodorant. (Elizabeth Taylor)

Money is the best deodorant. (Elizabeth Taylor)

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