"APHORISMS_001": Some common ideas (not necessarily unique) =========================================================== * Tell your feelings what to feel. Convert emotion into a constructive motion. * Don't take forever to answer eternal questions, just outsource them. * Take it easy, or take what is easy. Leave the rest to professionals. * Having nothing gives a clean start for wise ownership. * Life is precious and rich, some are just bad Kings. * Life comes in waves, that is how you know you are getting somewhere. * We have enough Internet bandwidth to keep our friendship. Let's also allocate some time to for it. * A straight line is for direct people. A curved line is for flexible people. A dot is for slow people. * A Perpetual Machine would have to stop due to the infinite energy tax. * Life is like a song. Breathing are the notes. * Everything leaves marks on the white color: it is not even a color, it's a vacuum of colors (ironically made of all the rainbow colors). * - What is the Return On Investment from going to a restaurant? - Calories. * Movie critics professionally spoil the movies with weird comments about unimportant details. * Sometimes I like to surprise my enemies and instead of typically wise decisions I do something incredibly stupid just to see the look on their faces. * I would like to belong to a society so secret, that even I don't realize that. * New things grow back from ashes all the time, but not from radioactive ashes: they take thousands of years to cool down. * Success under one politician brings angry retaliation under the next. Rather serve ordinary people with one face and one love. * All we have left from the past is our memories. If you start erasing your past selectively, you will get younger (at least as far as you can remember). * It is hard to be reasonable with an unreasonable amount of money. * Good people hold the atoms of this World together. * Every brick or concrete wall, every piece of wood are made of the living bodies of the past. There is a life story everywhere. * Love comes in many parts, but without a User Guide. It is more like a Cook Book that you make daily in your heart to feed your loved ones. * Music penetrates all languages and cultures. Music could unite us to inspire under the commonly human denominator. * Changing conditions give us new ideas for adaptation. If conditions don't change we develop a frozen condition. * People, who believe strongly, believe wrongly. * Learning to enjoy (what we have) and enjoying the learning. * What kind of material would you like to be: Tough but fragile like diamonds, Stretch-able and versatile like rubber, or Ever present and invisible like Oxygen? * People can do so much for money, but money don't do much for people. * Culture is a set of rituals. * In schools we get multiple choice tests. In life we only have one choice of multiple tests. * Random luck is a natural fairness for those who try often enough. * Alcoholics deliver: DEstroy their LIVER. * A dry skin is a desert covering underground rivers. The skin gets the first hit and contains the body. We hug and kiss only as far as the skin. * Mobile communication endangers our mobility. * Saying something good in a hard moment is not lying, it is putting the street lights on the path to new good times. * I have spread my back on the grass of the planet Earth. Meanwhile the planet is flying somewhere on a mission. I am grateful for the climate control and the oxygen supply. This is the best spaceship ever built. * The only proud memories and achievements I have were made under overdosed influence of love. * I am OK with crying, but preferably over a daily planner developing a way to a new success. * Cemetery is no scary since it is mostly populated by the dead. A city at night is scary ... Just listen to the morning news. * Trim bad thoughts like bad tree brunches: the good ones will grow from the internal energy of change. * The best way to destroy your problems is: 1. To zoom out far from them (to see from far away, from the entire life/Universe prospective) 2. Then use precise high altitude bombers to destroy these tiny targets. * My friends are as good as my intuition for good people. * Just because we don't have time for disasters, it does not mean that disasters have no time for us. * Everything is compensated by the opposing force. Without the compensation it would dominate the World. * Time leaves scratches, time heals the scratches. Such is the deep tissue massage of living. * Lifeforms continuously tries to penetrate and populate hostile worlds. Lifeforms continuously compete in the habitable worlds. Human lifeforms just watch it on TV. * Just by renaming Problems into tasks you overcome the big part of the challenges. * Our bodies are made of materials borrowed from the Mother Earth. Our intellect is made of ideas borrowed from the past generations. * It is OK to continuously raise your standards of living, but only without raising the standards of appreciation. * Some flowers like to show off, some never shut up, others wear too much perfume. I prefer simple and strong beauty. * If you miss being with good people, plant and raise one inside yourself. This friend will gratefully stay with you. * We laugh at jokes because familiar things suddenly plug-in in unexpected ways. * A stubborn one keeps kicking the same door. A committed one tries everything in the known Universe. * Human kind, super-humanly kind (?). * A strict teacher cannot teach the subject of love. A weak teacher cannot teach anything. * Not having something holy, one cannot be a whole one. * The problem with the History: it is always outdated. * The problems with the Future: it is always over-rated, worshiped, or dark-painted. * The only problem-free moment is the Present: such a present, but we can hold it for less than a second at a time. * The only difference between fantasy and hallucination is in who controls them. * Pessimists pay higher medical expenses and feel mostly bad, so if you are not too rich, smile and rejoice. * Just like in martial arts, you need to take the right position to receive the punches of life. Look at them from a positive defended position, and it does not hurt so much. * Poet is not the one who rhymes, but the one who has a lot to say in a beautiful and effortless rhymes. * While wondering about my place in the Universe, I almost lost my property that I never owned. * Our money are no good even one light year from here. * Our money are no good 100 years from here. * We rarely regret saying good words. Offensive words start fires that eventually consume the offender as well. Don't start more fire than your extinguisher can handle. Better yet, hold your fire and your preserve your energy. * You cannot possibly be successful without a strong desire of something. Success needs a vector to be measured and appreciated. * The World runs on laws: obey and use them to be happy. Ignoring or not knowing the laws only makes it harder. You think your life is hard? This entire World obeys the laws like a soldier (even when you sleep)! That is hard. * Knowledge can be destructive (even when false). Feed yourself with a nutritious knowledge only. * If my tea is not hot enough I go for a walk in a cold winter wind. When I come back, the tea is burning hot. That is what I call energy efficiency. * Science and technology will soon allow transforming the human body in many revolutionary ways: and then we will notice how many stupid and crazy people lived around us in their intelligence-abandoned human bodies. * I don't want to evolve too fast: every step of the evolution moves the species closer to the end or to new species. Whenever we HAVE TO evolve, it's not pretty. * Don't complain about things you cannot change. If you can change, do it without complaining. * Why is time never enough? Because the time is always moving, regardless if we are ready or not to catch up with it. * What impressed and excited me yesterday is pretty boring today. Is it because I have tried and have learned all that already? Is it why kids are so exited about the World? If this is true, I want to forget everything I have known to become that happy child again. * The sky is blue only in the blue light it scatters. If you put a blanket on a box, would you say the box has become the blanket? * Speech is a second-hand information from our brain. Besides, we have to use the limited language to describe our unlimited thoughts. We don't think in words, we think in pictures. People without any knowledge of languages can still think. * I am constantly trying to stay prepared for the unexpected. As I result of being always alert I am always tired. * Time flies very fast an unnoticed if it is not marked by any events. However, when you are very busy with many events time still secretly runs away while you are dealing with your daily events. * Security is an art: The best security poem is silence. The best security song is instrumental. The best security movie is black & white where black is denied. The best security dream is when pagers are silent. The best security manager is a well-educated paranoid. The best user in security is smart and scared. * In most jobs you are paid for something to happen, in security you are paid for things not to happen. * Do not try to remember everything, try to index your knowledge with bright and colorful hooks. Then, searching your brain use this Table of Content to avoid being lost in the twisted corridors of your memory. * Joke is an exaggerated reality, but the scale of reality can grow with time, and former jokes become part of our real life. That is why some old anecdotes are not funny anymore. And people of the future will make un-funny statements about our life as we are making fun of then today. * Music is a type of sound waves that moves our emotions. But music in our minds exists without any sound waves. Therefore, music is an airborne piece of human spirit. Musicians leave pieces of their souls in us. * Today happens only once in your lifetime. Every day is given to you only once. You cannot restore yesterday from a backup tape. Nobody knows how to backup and restore time. You have a single copy of your life, don't be a single point of failure. * There is always a solution, and there is always a choice: including the solutions we don't know yet, and choices not offered yet. * One philosopher was never upset about life. For him rain was an opportunity to take a shower, and sun was un opportunity to dry off. * Nothing is unlimited, so when a bad waive is coming on you, remember that to good one is following next. However, don't get too excited on your good wave and prepare for the next downturn. We all get good and bad waves, we just deal with then differently. * History repeats itself, but does not copy itself. Otherwise, no history would ever come out. * When on says very little, it applies to a lot of things, but does not penetrate anything. When one talks specific, he/she use a sharp weapon hitting one target. * You can see what your eyes are capable to see. You recognize, what you expect to recognize (only the familiar). * Every thought is biased, including this one. * By using help we are loosing abilities of self-helping. Help develops dependency. Help can also teach us, but we need to know when to disconnect and become self-teachers and self-helpers. * Knowledge is only an educated opinion. * Speed is exists in comparison. Movement cannot be seen in emptiness. * Human blood is red as a reminder not to waste it. * Our bodies are biological containers of our spirits. We see the World through the eye windows, we all have different points of view because we look from the different points. * Freedom is not about “doing anything you want”, it is about “not being told what you want”. * A circle might look like a straight line if it is the diameter is much bigger than your imagination. * If all invisible things could become visible at once, we would be blinded by the magnitude and the multiplicity. * To make your food tastier just make yourself hungrier. * Word are just wrapping papers in which we wrap broken pieces of our thoughts. You can use different papers to wrap, that is why there are many languages. * Silliness and wisdom go together. Silliness is an over-simplified wisdom. * When looking, don't forget seeing. * The Sun and the Earth determine my day span. I determine what to put in it. * Rain water falls in drops, but dries out in steam (vapor): small flies, big falls. * A well-connected society is also well-exposed and well-hacked. * Every minute of our life is a point of no return. If our life is a space mission, would we care to control and treasure it? * When people die, they cannot take anything of this World with them. Then why do they spend their lives obtaining this heavy stuff vs. growing the spirit? * To be the champion create your own sport. * Smart technology is hard to understand: “Smart Phone” implies a smart user. Who will make the much needed dumb products for the rest of us? * When we changed the face of the Earth, did we ask her? * My face is a mirror, it reflects other people's emotions. I also can see my smile bouncing off faces of others. * A hole is an empty spot within something. Therefore, holes don't actually exist. * Unused knowledge is stupid. * Any verification assumes a blind trust in what you verify against. * The truth is a limited snapshot of the Reality at a given resolution. Increase your resolution and you will see more: you will see you were wrong. * Understanding is living through. * Feeling is trying on. * Listening is waiting patiently. * Talking is making waves. * What you think is not what you believe in. Thinking is only a vehicle to take you to your believes. * All countries in the World are the same, only the people in them are different. * Machines with too many parts are more likely to break. How come living bodies (being so complex!), not only live, but survive against many odds? * Don't try to be perfect in your search of perfection. * Perfection is a feeling of balance between extremes. * It is easy to notice any unfairness to me, but how can I see better my unfairness to others? * When drops of rain fall in the sea, do they remember their past? What happens to their bodies? Do they become a members of the sea or dissolve without a trace? * Less choices in life make the decision process easier. * In every song there are sounds and words we don't get to hear. There is always more to know in all. * If happiness is a moving target, I don't want to be the hunter. I will just wait while this target completes a full circle around the Earth and comes back to me. * In Quantum Physics you can change things just by looking. Therefore I accept the Reality as is, without looking or criticizing. * Smart people are all very different, stupid people are all the same. The power of stupid people is in their universal unity. They win by numbers, since no effort is required to be one of them. * Resisting urges can be fun ... when stop resisting. * Questions don't mean you don't know something, they just mean you want to know more. To ask a question you need enough knowledge and curiosity. * Trying to be better then yourself is better than comparing to others. It the only way up. * Everything starts from seeds. Not everything leaves seeds. * Big things are born in pain. * Once you know one answer, there is no interest to look for another answer to the same question. That is how we end up with a bunch of easy and plausible “answers”. * Every complex thing can be broken down in pieces and analyzed separately. Unfortunately, the combined results will not describe the complex thing as a whole. * Before people discovered fire the fireman profession did not exist. * Analogy is not a proof. * Youth is a minor disease that disappears by itself as we get older. * Every time has its heroes, but true heroes will be known only after some time. * People have too much power now: they can no longer afford to be stupid, irresponsible, or evil. * Children have the fresh view on the World. They are not polluted with pre-conceptions. They don't have answers they would have to stick to. * Feeling of beauty comes from our genetic memory: somehow we appreciate things and people we have never seen before. * Life is precious, live it carefully. * An opportunity is just an open door. Past the door there are still many opportunities for mistakes. * Variety and diversity should melt into consistency and predictability. * There are so many stars in the Universe, but there are even more dust particles. * People have different points of view because the view the World from the different points of their eyes. * In a red-colored world there is no red, only monochrome shades of gray.