Ettore Pasquini > Ettore's Quotes

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I was born free as Caesar; so were you”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“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

“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."

Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
― Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
― Steve Jobs

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
― Dennis M. Ritchie

“You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.”
― Steve Jobs

“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
― Steve Jobs

“So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell" -- about iTunes on Windows computers”
― Steve Jobs

“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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers]

A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. ”
― Jack London

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“Chi di voi vorrà fare il giornalista, si ricordi di scegliere il proprio padrone: il lettore.”
― Indro Montanelli

“If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein