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citations:accueil

2009-08-30T21:53:06+00:00

Citations (et autres proverbes)

Je suis un grand fan de ces petit morceaux d'humour ou de sagesse, voici celles que j'ai retenues.

citations:autres

2011-03-20T08:07:57+00:00

“An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes that the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run” – Sidney J. Harris

Unix IS user-friendly. It is just very picky about who his friends are.

echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

Un clavier azerty en vaut deux.

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text ?

For external use only

Allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. – Bill Gates, 1998

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

“As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we should do freely and generously.” – Benjamin Franklin

L'expérience est quelquechose que l'on acquiert juste après en avoir eu besoin.

“Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme.” – Rabelais

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams

“L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote.” – Pierre Desproges

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” – Albert Einstein

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.” – Dave Barry

“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” – Hodding Carter

“You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.” – George Burns

citations:chinois

2010-05-06T05:35:17+00:00

Proverbes chinois

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb

Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand. – Chinese proverb

If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate people. – Chinese proverb

I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. – Chinese proverb

A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them. – Chinese proverb

citations:geek

2013-04-15T12:21:23+00:00

Citations de geek

In God we Trust. All others must submit an X.509 certificate.

“Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their work to an ftp server and have everybody mirror it.” – Linus Torvalds

There are only 10 types of people in the world : those who understand binary and those who don't.

“Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.” – Doug Gwyn

One OS to hook them all One browser to find them One word processor to bring them all And in monopoly, bind them…

A Black Hole is where God divided by zero.

Recursion: (n.) See “Recursion”.

It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of java that the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion.

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” – Rick Cook

I am the “ILOVEGNU” signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script

La lecture de fichier texte sous Unix, c'est souvent une question de vi ou de more

“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” – E. W. Dijkstra

This mail is displayed with recycled electrons

“If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.” – Robert Sewell

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” – Linus Torvalds

“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.” – Scott Adams

“Normal people […] believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.” – Scott Adams

citations:general

2014-01-27T18:23:48+00:00

Citations générales

En essayant continuellement, on finit par réussir. Donc plus ça rate, plus on a de chances que ça marche. – devise Shadok.

If one keeps trying forever, one succeeds eventually. Therefore, the more one fails, the closer one is to success. – Shadok motto.

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Albert Einstein

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” – Susan Ertz

“Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne ne veut descendre les poubelles.” – Jean Yanne

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Tolstoï

“Ouvrez une école, vous fermerez une prison.” – Victor Hugo

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” – Henny Youngman

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Kenneth Boulding, economist

“When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building shelters and others are building windmills.”

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” – Richard Feynman

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” – Franklin P. Jones

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” – George Bernard Shaw, literature Nobel prize

“Nous n'héritons pas la Terre de nos ancêtres, nous l'empruntons à nos enfants.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence” – Evelin Linder

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman

“La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six milliards de petits problèmes.” – Hubert Reeves

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” – Emo Phillips

“Si vous avez l'impression que vous êtes trop petit pour pouvoir changer quelque chose, essayez donc de dormir avec un moustique… et vous verrez lequel des deux empêche l'autre de dormir.” – Dalaï Lama

“Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.” – Douglas Adams

No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. – Turkish proverb

“Quand on pense qu'il suffirait que les gens n'achètent pas pour que ça ne se vende plus ! ” – Coluche

Don't worry about avoiding temptation – as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. – The Old Farmer's Almanac

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.” – Robert Anton Wilson

“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“If anything ever comes up in science that clearly contradicts traditional buddhism, then we'll simply have to abandon that aspect of traditional buddhism.” – Dalaï Lama

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides

“Between stimulus and response there's a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“It's a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.” – Tim Jackson

“Si vous jugez un poisson par sa capacité à grimper à un arbre, il va passer sa vie entière à croire qu’il est stupide.” – Albert Einstein

“Les altruistes ne sont ni plus ni moins rationnels que les égoïstes. Ils poursuivent simplement des buts différents.” – Robert Frank

“Le bien-être d'une nation ne peut pas être déduit de la mesure de son PIB.” – Simon Kuznets, inventeur du PIB, prix Nobel

“The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income.” – Simon Kuznets, GNP inventor, Nobel prize winner.

“Traitez les gens comme s'ils étaient ce qu'ils devrait être, et vous les aiderez ainsi à devenir ce qu'ils peuvent être.” – Goethe

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” – Goethe

“Les chiffres sont accablants : il y a de plus en plus d'étrangers dans le monde.” – Pierre Desproges

Focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have.

Concentre-toi sur ce que tu as plutôt que sur ce que tu n'as pas.

“When you have to classify the very capacity of the Earth to support human life as an “externality”, then it is time to rethink your theory.” – Herman Daly

“Ce n'est pas un signe de bonne santé que d'être bien adapté à une société profondément malade.” – J. Krishnamurti