Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council (YTV) - Coordinates public transport, waste management, air quality management and development planning in the municipalities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen.
Helsinki Region Travel Card - A new system being introduced on all public transport in the metropolitan area. How to buy and use the card.
Uusimaa Regional Council - Tasks, programs and projects of the council. Places worth seeing in the region.
Laurea Polytechnic - Information of degree programmes and studying. Campuses in Espoo, Lohja, Kerava, Järvenpää, Hyvinkää, Vantaa and Porvoo.
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Uusimaa Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Uusimaa
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Uusimaa Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins My other wife is beautiful. Uusimaa
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Uusimaa "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Uusimaa
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Uusimaa "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Uusimaa
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Uusimaa The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Uusimaa
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Uusimaa "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Uusimaa
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Uusimaa Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Uusimaa
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Uusimaa Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Uusimaa
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Uusimaa It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Uusimaa
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Uusimaa I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Uusimaa
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Uusimaa English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Uusimaa
