Marek > Marek's Quotes

“Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“You never see an old man eating a Twix”
― Karl Pilkington

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Byl jsem hrabě a vlastnil jsem bohaté panství. Ale chudoba mýc poddaných mě tak dojímala, že jsem jim chodil pomáhat robotovat na svých polích. Tím jsem zanedbával své vrchnostenské povinnosti. Brzy jsem se topil v dluzích a soused, také feudál, skoupil směnky a přivedl mě na buben. Víc než krejcar mi nedávejte, nechci se vrátit mezi tu bohatou pakáž.”
― Jára Cimrman, Hry a semináře

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . . . Natural selection . . . is a non-random force, pushing towards improvement. . . . Every generation has its Darwinian failures but every individual is descended only from previous generations' successful minorities. . . . [T]here can be no going downhill - species can't get worse as a prelude to getting better. . . . There may be more than one peak.”
― Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. Why, I wonder, is it so hard for even sophisticated scientists to grasp this simple point?”
― Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“He's so fucking crooked he sleeps on a spiral staircase!”
― Dylan Moran, Dylan Moran Live - What It Is

“‎That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

“I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?”
― Linus Torvalds

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
― steve jobs

“Naděje prostě není optimismus. Není to přesvědčení, že něco dobře dopadne, ale jistota, že má něco smysl – bez ohledu na to, jak to dopadne.”
― Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time