Mediului Inconjurator Quotes & Sayings

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign. — H.L. Mencken

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely — John Denver

People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team. — Meg Whitman

Future never desires to become a past — Munia Khan

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. — Asghar Farhadi

The balance of life; every loss is a gain. And every gain is a loss. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A powerful AI system tasked with ensuring your safety might imprison you at home. If you asked for happiness, it might hook you up to a life support and ceaselessly stimulate your brain's pleasure centers. If you don't provide the AI with a very big library of preferred behaviors or an ironclad means for it to deduce what behavior you prefer, you'll be stuck with whatever it comes up with. And since it's a highly complex system, you may never understand it well enough to make sure you've got it right. — James Barrat

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body. — Berthe Morisot

Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and handing it out to random strangers. Or writing a harmless little virus that makes credit counters "forget" to send a surcharge back to the bank after each purchase. Oh, sure, technically I'm supposed to give away my own money, but whatever. I'm sure Allah gets the spirit of what I'm doing here. — Lyda Morehouse

I AM WILLING TO LET GO OF MY SELF-DOUBT. I SURRENDER TO SELF-LOVE. — Gabrielle Bernstein