Verba volant, scripta manent

"... we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it." C. E. Shannon, Coding Theorems for a Discrete Source with a Fidelity Criterion, 1959.

"Out of the cradle onto dry land here it is standing: atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea, wonders at wondering: I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the Universe." R. Feynman

"Bakakalirim giden geminin ardindan." Orhan Veli Kanik

"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well." William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608.

"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? " William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

"Uzun ince bir yoldayım

Gidiyorum gündüz gece

Bilmiyorum, ne haldeyim?

Gidiyorum gündüz gece" A. Veysel

"nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing" Edward Estlin Cummings

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper

“In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.” Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

"Ce qui est simple est toujours faux. Ce qui ne l’est pas est inutilisable." Paul Valéry (Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942)

"I am very much somebody who makes his own judgements about things, takes his own way. Two roads diverging into the wood, I took the one less traveled by. That has made all the difference." Dave Forney (IEEE Medal of Honor 2016)

"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"The beauty of a snow crystal depends on its mathematical regularity and symmetry; but somehow the association of many variants of a single type, all related but no two the same, vastly increases our pleasure and admiration.” D’Arcy Thompson (On Growth and Form, Cambridge, 1917)

"I think about the life I live

A figure made of clay..." Anna Marie Wooldridge

“Think I should move to the south of France, change my name to ‘Vincent’?” Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting, 1997.

"All sounds have stopped. Can't you hear that there are no longer any sounds?" Alexander Blok (O. Figes, A people's tragedy: A history of the Russian revolution, 1997.)

"En güzel günlerimiz: henüz yaşamadıklarımız." Nazım Hikmet Ran

"Faut-il aimer la vie ou la regarder juste passer?" Raphaël Haroche

"Well, the truth is, we cannot speak other than by our paintings." Vincent van Gogh (Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written 23 July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise.)

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." Vincent van Gogh

"D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous" Paul Gauguin

"Geçmişim

dile dökülmeyenin tenhalığında

kaçırılan bakışlarda

gündeliğin başıboş ayrıntılarında

zaman zaman geri tepip duruyordu.

Ve elbet üzerinde durulmuyordu." Murathan Mungan

"Aramizda yüz yıllık zaman,

yol yüz yıllık." Nazım Hikmet Ran

"Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” Andrei Tarkovsky

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." Edvard Munch

"Midway on our life's journey, I found myself

In dark woods, the right road lost. To tell

About those woods is hard--so tangled and rough" Dante Alighieri

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others." Carl Friedrich Gauß

"To create a little flower is the labour of ages." William Blake

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." Maya Angelou

"Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time: You become an image of what is remembered forever." Rabindranath Tagore

"... and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." Vincent Van Gogh

"What the river says, that is what I say." William Stafford

"These apples I love, these apples I loath

And always forgive the future to come

For stealing the light from the sun" Katie Melua

"I never promised you a rose garden" Joanne Greenberg