Don't Try

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. Let history make its own judgments"

-- Zefram Cochrane, 2073

Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors."

-- Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory's episode The Lizard-Spock Expansion.

Point of View

"Punkt widzenia zależy od punktu siedzenia." -- Polish Proverb

(The point of view depends from point where we are.)

Von Abgründen

"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

"He who fights with monsters should look to it, that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

-- in Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche