Andrzej Kaczmarczyk > Andrzej Kaczmarczyk's Quotes

“It is easy to think outside the box when you aren’t smart enough to know where the box is.”
― Joseph R. Lallo, Bypass Gemini

“Szczur mówił to gładkim, pełnym szczerości tonem, którym ludzie zawsze okłamują innych.”
― Robert M. Wegner, Wschód – Zachód

“Nasze kłamstwa więcej o nas zdradzają niż prawda najprawdziwsza. Kiedy mówisz o sobie prawdę — prawda to jest to, co ci się rzeczywiście przydarzyło: twój wycinek historji świata. I przecież nie masz, nie miałaś nad nim żadnej kontroli, nie wybrałaś miejsca swych narodzin, nie wybrałaś sobie rodziców, nie miałaś wpływu na to, jak cię wychowają, nie wybrałaś swojego życia; sytuacje, w jakich cię stawiało, nie były twojej kreacji, ludzie, z którymi musiałaś się zadawać, nie byli tworami twego umysłu i nie dawałaś przyzwolenia na szczęścia i nieszczęścia, jakie stały się twoim udziałem. Większość tego, co nam się przydarza, jest dziełem przypadku. Kłamstwo natomiast w całości pochodzi od ciebie, nad kłamstwem posiadasz kontrolę zupełną, zrodziło się z ciebie, tobą się karmi i tylko ciebie opowiada. W czym więc odkrywasz się bardziej: w prawdzie czy w fałszu?”
― Jacek Dukaj

“Honestly, people always talk about ‘normal’ as though it is something to aspire to, but that’s a load of crap. Normal isn’t an achievement, it’s a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting.”
― Joseph R. Lallo, Bypass Gemini

“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“Rzucanie pracy i dalekie chodzenie za potrzebą groziło utratą cennych przemyśleń, a na to żaden uczony pozwolić sobie nie mógł”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Occam’s razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone’s ass was usually the correct one.”
― John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades

“People who “know” can tell you all the things that can’t be done and why. People who “know” don’t need to learn because they already have the answers. People who “know” are complete—or perhaps just finished. More often than not, people who “know” are also people who “no”.”
― Tim Hurson

“Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport.”
― Neal Stephenson

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, “Madam, do you think that would be a lady?”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

“Jedyne, na co zawsze można liczyć, to konsekwentna głupota maszynowej inteligencji.”
― Jacek Dukaj, Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość

“So every night,” he said, “I slept with a torpedo and a puppy.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

“kobieta, moim skromnym zdaniem, jest jak koło u wozu. Trzeba ją często smarować, ale szybko wymienić, kiedy tylko zacznie skrzypieć.”
― Anonymous

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise.
"But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”
― George Mikes, How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

“Many Continentals tink life is a game; the English think cricet is a game.”
― George Mikes

“Q. Why don’t they work harder?
A. They just don’t like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so they like to keep it up. The British find it boring.”
― George Mikes, How to Be a Brit

“Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.”
― George Mikes, How to Be a Brit

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

“Reading is good, action is better.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup