Lakman, Jesper - Personal page with visions, CV, ideology, references and management.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Society and Culture
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Society and Culture
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Society and Culture The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Society and Culture Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Society and Culture Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Society and Culture
