We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
El cosmos es todo lo que es, todo lo que fue y todo lo que será. Nuestras más ligeras contemplaciones del cosmos nos hacen estremecer: Sentimos como un cosquilleo nos llena los nervios, una voz muda, una ligera sensación como de un recuerdo lejano o como si cayéramos desde gran altura. Sabemos que nos aproximamos al más grande de los misterios.
Carl Sagan
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Brian Tracy
Un diseñador es un planificador con sentido del buen gusto.
Bruno Munari
We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
CS Lewis
If you don’t start somewhere, you’re gonna go nowhere.
Bob Marley
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Most people overestimate what they can do in 1 year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years.
Bill Gates
La normalidad está sobrevalorada: la mayoría de las personas normales son gilipollas.
Bill Clinton
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.
Benny Hill
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Vamos a ciegas lanzando cosas a la web y rezando para que las vean.
Aron Pilhofer
La prensa libre puede ser buena o mala, pero sin libertad la prensa es siempre mala.
Albert Camus
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin
It doesn’t matter as much what our future destination is; it matters most that we pick one and stick to it.
Anatoli Ivanishin
La pasión por la destrucción es una pasión creadora
Bakunin
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
Una vez, en México un periodista mexicano me preguntó si no tenía «remordimientos por ser español y genocida».
«Ustedes vinieron a América a violar a mujeres y destruir nuestra civilización», argumentó.
Le pregunté cómo se apellidaba. Dijo que Sánchez.
Le respondí que mis abuelos nunca fueron a América: «El que por lo visto sí vino fue el abuelo de usted —dije- Aquel señor Sánchez».
Arturo Pérez Reverte
No son los tiranos los que hacen esclavos. Son los esclavos los que hacen a los tiranos.
Arturo Pérez Reverte, Hombres buenos
Ninguna gilipollez es respetable. Lo único respetable es el derecho de cada cual a expresar cualquier gilipollez. Tan respetable como, acto seguido, el derecho de los otros a llamarlo gilipollas.
Arturo Pérez Reverte, El semanal, 20/4/2008
Un buen periódico, supongo, es una nación hablando consigo misma.
Arthur Miller
Un diseñador sabe que ha logrado la perfección no cuando no hay nada que añadir, sino cuando no hay nada que quitar.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Antes de insultar a alguien, contad hasta diez. Seguro que se os ocurrirán más insultos.
Anónimo napolitano
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
Aaron Swartz
Mi Regla Número Uno es no pedir explicaciones.
Mi Regla Número Dos es no darlas.
Pepe Colubi
You’re using an older version of yourself that won’t be around for much longer.
Pepe Colubi
La ciencia ficción te balancea en el acantilado. La fantasía te empuja.
Ray Bradbury
Somos el milagro de la fuerza y la materia convirtiéndose a sí mismas en imaginación y voluntad.
Ray Bradbury
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
Robert A Heinlein, Sixth Column
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to the office.
Robert Frost
El periodismo es ir donde está el silencio y hacer visible lo invisible.
Rosa María Calaf
Sin justicia, ¿qué son los reinos sino una gran banda de ladrones?
San Agustín
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.
William Durant
Every time you say «Somebody» should try replacing the «Somebody» with «l» and see how it changes your outlook.
Will Spencer
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WB Yeats
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
The Internet mirrors society. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, don’t break the mirror.
Vint Cerf
Our measurements of time are meaningless; the most accurate clock is a joke; you’ll read all about it someday, you just wait.
Vladimir Nabokov
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.
Warren Buffett
El diseño es la búsqueda de un equilibrio mágico entre el negocio y el arte; arte y talento; intuición y razón; concepto y detalle; alegría y formalidad; cliente y diseñador, diseñador e impresor; impresor y público.
Valerie Pettis
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Ursula K LeGuin
The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.
Ursula K LeGuin
Las redes sociales dan derecho de palabra a legiones de imbéciles.
Umberto Eco
No son las noticias las que hacen el periódico, sino el periódico el que hace las noticias.
Umberto Eco
Honeste vivere, alterum non laedre, suum cuique tribuere
Vivir honestamente, no dañar a otros, dar a cada cual lo suyo
Ulpiano
En todos los actos y situaciones son más dignos de alabar quienes dirigen a los demás correctamente que quienes actúan con corrección bajo dirección ajena.
Tomás de Aquino, La monarquía
Es libre quien es por causa de si mismo, mientras que siervo es quien, cuanto es, lo es por causa de otros.
Tomás de Aquino, La monarquía
Por lo propio se enemistan algunos, por lo común se unen.
Tomás de Aquino, La monarquía
Cuando se nace pobre, estudiar es el mayor acto de rebeldía contra el sistema. El saber rompe las cadenas de la esclavitud.
Tomás Bulat
Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.
Tim Fargo
The web is to internet what a fridge is to the power grid
Tim Berners-Lee
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
It is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
You meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
After all, when you seek advice from someone it’s certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting times
There was, he thought, probably something in the idea that there were only a few people in the world. There were lots of bodies, but only a few people. That’s why you kept running into the same ones. There was probably some mould somewhere.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting times
Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting times
Chaos is found in greater abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting times
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity–those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.
Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen
He robado ideas durante toda mi vida. He robado a cineastas y artistas de todo tipo. He robado mucho. Lo que no hago es copiar
Terry Gilliam
El periodismo consiste en facilitar la vida de los lectores, no en entretenerlos.
Stephen Few
La religión es considerada por la gente común como verdadera, por los sabios como falsa, y por los gobernantes como útil.
Séneca
El diseño visual es a menudo el polo opuesto a la ingeniería: intercambiar duras aristas por subjetivas decisiones basadas en instintos primitivos y experiencias personales. Es lioso, impredecible y notablemente difícil de medir. El aparentemente comportamiento errático de los artistas conduce a ingenieros a la locura. Sus decisiones parecen arbitrarias y ponen en riesgo todo sin garantía de éxito.
Scott Stevenson
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses… In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator
Sharing is always good. With digital technology, sharing is also easy.
Richard Stallman
Sometimes fear of the unknown is not as great as the fear of things staying the way they are.
Richard Price
Cuando se descubrió que la información era un negocio, la verdad dejó de ser importante.
Rizschard Kapuscinski
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A Heinlein
You know you’re working class when your TV is bigger than your book case.
Rob Beckett
Guns don’t kill people. People who say “Guns don’t kill people” kill people. With guns.
Rob Delaney
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
Peter Hamilton
Hay peores cosas que quemar libros, una de ellas es no leerlos.
Ray Bradbury
El buen periodista es versátil con las herramientas e inamovible con sus principios, no al revés.
Ramón Salaverría
El atávico poder representativo de conceptos tan etéreos como las banderas, los himnos y las fronteras.
Pepe Colubi
If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
Paul Newman
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
No soy tan joven como para saberlo todo
Oscar Wilde
Donde quiera que esté soy aquello que falta
Mark Strand
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Keith Richards
La consecuencia de no pertenecer a ningún partido será que los molestaré a todos.
Lord Byron
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
Konrad Zuse
El adanismo te hace pensar que todo empieza cuando llegas. El progreso, en cambio, es incremental. Nos alzamos en hombros de gigantes.
John Müller
El buen diseño es obvio. El diseño genial es transparente.
Joe Sparano