Neamu, Daniel - Some press news links about Romania. Personal photographs of both Romania and travels in the United States. From Craiova.
Nicolaescu, Radu - The resume of a software and electrical engineer based in Timiosara. [English/Romanian]
Novac, Adrian - Photos from Romania and from the author's city, Galati. Includes a brief history of the city and country.
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud N A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) N
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any N Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi N
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "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, N Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland N
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 N The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson 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 N
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is 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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers N blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) N
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) N America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. N
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers N Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin N
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau N A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin N
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard N "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) N
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap N "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald N
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill N "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) N
