Doing Better

"Doing better next time. That's what life is." -- Logen Ninefingers (Before They Are Hanged)

Wisdom by Homer ... not the Greek

"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try" -- Homer Simpson in "Burns' Heir" (1F16)

Let’s go kill them!

"Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let’s go kill them!" -- Tyrion Lannister

Good Guy Chris Nolan

"The question of 3-D is a very straightforward one. I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it's always a source of great concern to me when you're charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

It's up to the audience to tell us how they want to watch the movies. More people go see these films in 2-D, and so it's difficult data to interpret. And I certainly don't want to shoot in a format just to charge people a higher ticket price." -- Christopher Nolan on the question of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises and 3D.

The Greatest Trick

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." -- Verbal Kint in "The Usual Suspects"

"Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!" -- Charles Baudelaire in "Le Joueur généreux"

Form Follows Function

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law."

-- Louis Sullivan in "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered"

When in Rome ..

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do." -- attributed to Saint Ambrose (339–397), Bishop of Milano

Be careful the cat!

"Don't say 'cat' if he's not in the sack."

"Be careful the cat! No say the cat is in the sack when you have not the cat in the sack!"

"The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but [the sack] is open ... and it's a wild cat!"

-- Giovanni Trappatoni (Italian football coach)

Reference: Wall Street Journal.

Clarke's Three Laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Perfection & Excellence

"Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence." -- Vince Lombardi (1959)

On Spending Public Funds

"Yes, but I think that with Government backing I could make it very silly." -- Ministry of Silly Walks sketch by Monty Python

One in a Million

"Woke up this mornin'
Got yourself a gun
Mama always said you'd be the chosen one
She said, 'You're one in a million'" -- Woke up this mornin' by Alabama 3

Guess what I am watching right now?

On Excellence

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

-- Vince Lombardi (American football coach)

Fear

"(..) the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his First Inaugural Address (1933).

A True McGuffin

'It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says "What's that package up there in the baggage rack?", and the other answers "Oh, that's a McGuffin". The first one asks "What's a McGuffin?". "Well", the other man says, "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands". The first man says "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands", and the other one answers "Well, then that's no McGuffin!". So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.'

-- Alfred Hitchcock in an interview with François Truffaut (1966)

He tasks me!

"He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia, and round the Antares maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!" -- Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"

One of those buzzwords

Oh, "meltdown." It's one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an "unrequested fission surplus." -- Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns in "Homer Defined" (8F04)

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.)