OT: Great quotes and aphorisms

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Totally OT:

I like smart quotes and aphorisms.
I would like to start a thread dedicated to them (hope it's ok with the mods)

so two of them:

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is"

"All models are wrong, some are usefull"

Your turn, ladies and gentlemen :)
 
"Nobody is totally useless, they can always be used as a bad example."

Bob
 
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
Roland Barthes

"It's not a question of solving. It's a question of stating."
G. Winogrand
 
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell. I've just ordered a T-shirt with this quote from Redmolotov (www.redmolotov.com), along with another with an Aldous Huxley quote:

"Facts do no cease to exist because they are ignored"

I already have Bakunin's

"freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality"

Cheers,

R.
 
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I like the one I'm currently using in my post signature, by Buddha.

Also: A language barrier can be a wonderful bridge between people. I came up with this while talking with Roger and Francis in a small town in France while on vacation there a few years ago.

This thread isn't about the philosphy of photography though and will be/has been moved to off topic.
 
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Frank, thanks for moving the thread. I didn't know there was an OT forum...

This one I chose as the opening of my PhD Thesis:

“A four-year-old child could understand this report.​
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on striving

on striving

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

- T. S. ELiot​
 
on talent and persistence

on talent and persistence

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
- Calvin Coolidge


"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein
 
"There are two types of people in the world: those that divide people into categories and those that don't." - George Carlin
 
How can you be in two places at once when you are not anywhere at all.

Antelope freeway, 1/128th mile.

If you lived here, you would be home by now.
 
JoeV said:
"There are two types of people in the world: those that divide people into categories and those that don't." - George Carlin
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Or, of course, "There are 10 categories of people in the world. Those who understand digital and those who don't."

Sorry, don't know the source.

Cheers,

R.
 
Build a man a fire, and you will keep him warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life.
 
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

I really wish I knew/could remember who the author was but at least it was memorable enough to stick with me all these years.

Bob
 
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Lady Astor to Churchill: 'If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!'
Churchill: 'My dear, if you were my wife I'd drink it.'


[FONT=Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]George Bernard Shaw:[/FONT]
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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