Gerhard Sletten

Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver

Bland de blinde er den enøyde konge

Fra årets juleavsluttning med min svømmeklubb

Buridan’s ass
Engelsk uttrykk – hvis du plasserer et esel mellom to like store høyballer vil det stå der til det sulter ihjel, fordi det ikke klarer å velge hvem det skal gå til.

Morten’s Fork
Engelsk uttrykk – Når du har to valg, men begge fører til samme dårlige løsning.

Hobson’s choice
Engelsk uttrykk – Når man det i prinsippet bare gis et valg. Og at valget da står mellom å ta det eller ikke.

Alle tre uttrykk fra Twit 220

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct

Nils Boor via NY Times

You miss 100% of the shots
you never take

Wayne Gretzky via Twitter

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy,
boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence:
in other words, it is war minus the shooting…

George Orwell

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about”

Oscar Wilde

“Any extreme athlete will tell you, there is magic in misery.”

“Quid pro quo”

Latinsk versjon av øye for øye og tann for tann

“He is wise above his bandana”

Marlin Man i podcasten You look nice today om Axel Roses strofe “Whats some civil about war anyway”

Rør inn resten av purren. Du har nå en fortreffelig potetmos, men enda kan smaken heves. Hvordan? Med ost selvsagt. Hiv oppi to never hvitost og en dose cheddar.

Matglede og ostmani i bloggen Ordentlig mat

“By definition “design” IS NOT subjective. The visual aesthetic can be “liked” or “disliked” since lets face it, not every one has the same taste in color, imagery and so on. However, true design be it interactive, architecture, furniture, product etc is based on the simple premise of solving a problem. I’m not saying that the solution shouldn’t be beautiful, but judging a design solution simply on its aesthetic merits is circumventing the entire purpose of design. At its heart a design solution either solves a problem or it doesn’t, meaning there is absolutely nothing subjective or perceived.”

Godt sagt om design

“If I had more time, I’d write a shorter letter.”

Leste en interessant artikkel hvor det blant annet stod om vår tids største programmerere, en av dem var Donald Knuth:

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

http://css-tricks.com/
CSS is like chess. You can learn the basics in a day and spend a lifetime mastering it.

Poka-yoke er japansk og betyr feilsikring, og ble oppfunnet av Shigeo Shingo fra Toyota (egentlig var navnet Baka-yoke, som betyr idiotsikring).

Enda et japansk uttrykk: Wabi-sabi
Wabi-sabi – beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”

Mark Twain
“All things in moderation, especially moderation.”

Mark Twain
“Too much of anything is bad, except whiskey, where too much is just enough.”

Top Gun
“Take me to bed or loose me forever”

Kanye West
So if you admire somebody go ahead and tell them,
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

Jules Henri Poincare
If nature were not
beautiful, it would not
be worth knowing, and
if nature were not
worth knowing,
life would not
be worth
living.

Og et sitat til om naturen jeg ikke vet helt hvor kommer fra, men som jeg kom til å tenke på da nyhetene skrev om britiske trålere som dumpet fisk, og alle ropte miljøkriminalitet. Men i naturen er det jo alltid noen organismer som kan nyttiggjøre seg av det.

I naturen går ingenting til spille.

Steve Jobs
“Stay young. Stay foolish”

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
“Initiativet tilhører de små folk. Ti deres liv er i fare.”

Amy Curtis-McIntyre, Vice President of Marketing i JetBlue
“Advertising is the last thing you bring to the mix. You start by getting the product right, getting your attitude right, getting everyone internally understanding the mission. Then you move to telling the story through PR. You build the advertising last, and that way you can live on realistic budgets.”

Parkinson’s law
“work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

George Patton
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

Her kommer noen nye ord som har inspirert meg i det siste:

Aftenposten hadde en artikkel i A-magasinet på fredag “Alt kan fortelles med seks ord”. Ideen med seks-ords-noveller startet med at Ernest Hemingway (på en bar selvfølgelig) veddet på at han bare trengte seks ord for å skrive en fullgod novelle. Han vant veddemålet med:

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

I 1624 skrev en engelsk dikter John Donne “Klokkene ringer”:

Intet menneske er en Øy, hel og ubeskåren i
seg selv. Hvert menneske er et stykke av
Fastlandet, en del av det Hele. Om en Jord-
klump skylles bort av Havet, blir Europa
mindre, på samme vis som en Landtunge
blir det, eller som et Jordegods, tilhørende
Dine Venner eller Deg selv må bli det. Hvert
menneskes Død forminsker Meg, ti jeg er
innesluttet i Menneskeheten. Gå derfor aldri
ut for å spørre: Hvem ringer Klokkene for?
Klokkene ringer for deg.

Produkttekst på Masi Tubungato, Basfo Doble, 2006 (vinflaske):

The double fermentation of Malbec grapes with a
percentage of slightly dried Corvina graphes lends
the wine a wealth in aroma and structure, elegant
tannis and softness that combine to produce a
superior wine with ageing potential.

Lao Tzu:

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himselft is enlightened.

Ukjent:

Pressure makes diamonds

Oscar Wilde:

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Det er noe med sitater som alltid har fasinert meg. Måten man med bare noen få ord kan treffe noe på kornet på den måten. Her er noen som har inspirert meg de siste årene:

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Great artists deliver.

Steve Jobs

If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

Henry Ford

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi

If the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off.

Sir Isaac Newton

I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.

Marshall McLuhan

Vi befinner oss alle i rennesteinen, men noen av oss kikker opp på stjernene.

Oscar Wilde

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Budda

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

Drink to me.

Pablo Picasso’s last words

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernad Shaw, Irsk forfatter, Nobelprisen 1925

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

Betty Reese

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Simplify the Problem, Don’t Complicate the Solution.