Delyan Raychev: collection of quotes

• "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there -- lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more." -- Mark Twain

• "The World is going to complexity. Complexity is not the same as complication. Complexity is good." -- Dr. Abdollahi

• "...don't look for immediate meaning... It's all abstract... Symbolic..." -- Dr. Abdollahi

• "Nothing in the world happens instantly... But gradually... Gradually..." -- Dr.Abdollahi

• "Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism." -- Karl Marx 1867

• "True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life" -- James Baldwin

• "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- by Mahatma Gandhi

humorous

• "Macs are only good for basic things - Word & e-mail. They are not user friendly. Vista is for complex tasks... like... video editing." -- anonymous friend

• "MS-DOS and UNIX are essentially the same thing... command line based operating systems." -- a mechanical engineering PhD candidate