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The Cat and the Monks
| There once was a temple that had a cat. Whenever the monks would take their customary walk around the temple, this cat would interrupt them (crossing their path? Demanding attention? Making noise?). Therefore, the head monk gave the order that whenever it was time for the customary walk, someone had the duty to take the cat to the other end of the garden and tie it to a tree. For many years, they carried out this practice and it became one of the fundamental tasks of this order. Years later, the head monk died. The cat also died. The monks of this temple bought another cat to the temple so that they could tie it to a tree during the daily walks, so that the fundamental practice would continue to be correctly observed. Many years later, another head monk wrote a treatise about the importance of tying cats to trees during the daily walk. | در معبدی گربه ای وجود داشت که هنگام مراقبه ی راهب ها مزاحم تمرکز آنها میشد. بنا بر این استاد بزرگ دستور داد هر وقت زمان مراقبه می رسد یک نفر گربه را گرفته و به ته باغ ببرد و به درختی ببندد. این روال سالها ادامه پیدا کرد و یکی از اصول کار آن مذهب شد. سالها بعد استاد بزرگ در گذشت. گربه هم مرد. راهبان آن معبد گربه ای خریدند و به معبد آوردند تا هنگام مراقبه به درخت ببندند تا اصول مراقبه را درست به جای آورده باشند .سالها بعد استاد بزرگ دیگری رساله ای در باره ی اهمیت بستن گربه به درخت در هنگام مراقبه نوشت |
A Poison Tree
| I was angry with my friend. I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe. I told it not. My wrath did grow. |
از دست دوستم عصبانی بودم. به وی گفتم، خشمم تمام شد. از دست دشمنم عصبانی بودم. به وی نگفتم. خشمم رشد کرد. |
The Old Man is Wrong
| I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid. |
Companies are dictatorships
| One of the paradoxes of early 20th Century management was the observation that companies are best run as dictatorships, while countries are best run as democracies. Why was this? Management theorist Charles Barnard, in his theory of the firm, proposed that it was because organizations existed for a common “shared purpose”. Countries, on the other hand, existed only to serve their people. |
Neither snow nor rain
| Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds |
Memorization vs. Problem Solving
| Although Japanese business leaders, educators, and politicians have long talked about the need for Japan to shift from "memorization-focused education" to "problem-solving-focused education," no one had figured out a concrete and effective way to make this happen. |
Flycatcher habitat
| Conservatism is the home of the free market, of rewarding people for producing outcomes, not applying policies. What does that have to do with the environment? I know a rancher who has managed the habitat on his ranch to such a state of health that it hosts one of the largest known populations of an endangered bird (a flycatcher). An adjacent preserve of similar habitat hosts none. Leftist environmentalists have lobbied to remove the flycatcher habitat from the rancher’s management and increase the size of the preserve. A conservative environmentalism would reward the rancher for his success and empower him to increase the number of flycatchers even more. |
Environment and Government
| I changed my “environmental politics” because I came to believe that mainstream environmentalists—the great majority of whom are liberals—are more interested in expanding the role of government than in fixing what’s wrong with the environment. Or in sustaining or enhancing what’s right. And because liberals operate by, within, and through the government to control an ever greater portion of our lives—where we get our health care, what kind of cars and food we can buy, how we dispose of our trash, raise our children, etc.—any increase in government power is an increase in their power. |
Goals vs. opportunities
| Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C; when opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. |
Hiding your light
| Vicky: So, tell me, why won’t your father publish his poems? Juan Antonio: Well, because he hates the world, and that’s his way of getting back at them -- to create beautiful works and then to deny them to the public, which I think, it’s... Vicky: My God. Well, what makes him so...angry toward the human race? Juan Antonio: Because after thousands of years of civilization...they still haven’t learned to love. |
Bragging about ancestors
| Alex is a self-made multimillionaire. His is the prototypical American success story. Conversely, Toddy and others like him are an endangered species. Someday, they may even be extinct. This is especially true for those who spend a lot of time reminiscing about how their late ancestors founded steel mills, railroads, and pony express services long, long ago. |
Like a desert needs rain
| Like a desert needs rain, like a town needs a name, I need your love. |
همچون صحرا به آب نیاز دارد، و شهر به اسم، من به عشق تو نیاز دارم. |
Man in the Mirror
| I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change |
Habits
| Quitting a habit causes disease. | ترک عادت موجب مرز است. |
Ruling the world
| The joy of ruling the world isn't worth the headache of managing the army. | سودای جهانداری غم لشکر نمیارزد. |
Equality
| The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. |
Abraham Lincoln
| [Regarding Abraham Lincoln] Viewed from genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical and determined. |
Rent seeking cat
| They told the cat, "your poop has healing properties". He covered it up with dirt. | به گربه گفتند فلانت درمانه، خاک داد روش. |
Road to Joy
| So when you’re asked to fight a war that’s over nothing, It’s best to join the side that’s gonna win. And no one’s sure how all of this got started, But we’re gonna make them g*ddam certain how its gonna end. Oh ya we will, oh ya we will! |
‘Til it shines
| Take away my inhibitions Take away my solitude. Fire me up with your resistance Mmm put me in the mood. Storm the walls around this prison, Leave the inmates, free the guards. Deal me up another future from some Brand new deck of cards. Take the chip off from my shoulder, Smooth out all the lines. Take me out among the rustlin’ pines Till it shines. |
Do you love the desert?
| Most people 'love' the desert by driving through it in air-conditioned cars, "experiencing" its grandeur. That may be some kind of experience, but it is living in a fool's paradise. To really experience the desert you have to march right into its white bowl of sky and shape-contorting heat with your mind on your canteen as if it were your last gallon of gas and you were being chased by a carload of escaped murderers. You have to imagine what it would be like to drink blood from a lizard or, in the grip of dementia, claw bare-handed through sand and rock for the vestigial moisture beneath a dry wash. |
Have you paid your dues
| He said "Drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sing? Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings?" He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside? 'Cause if you're big star bound, let me warn you, it's a long long ride." |
Monstrous Essence
| The (human) essence is a monster. Since when did it die? It is merely depressed from a lack of means (to express its monstrosity). |
نفس اژدرهاست، او کی مرده است؟ از غم بی آلتی افسرده است. |
High Modernist Ideology
| High modernism must not be confused with scientific practice. It was fundamentally...a faith that borrowed...the legitimacy of science and technology. It was, accordingly, uncritical, unskeptical, and thus unscientifically optimistic about the possibilities for the comprehensive planning of human settlement and production. |
Intellectual Detour
| This book grew out of an intellectual detour that became so gripping that I decided to abandon my original itinerary altogether. |
Make no little plans
| Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big. |
Cheap signalling
| It is one thing to be cosmetically defiant of authority by wearing unconventional clothes - what social scientists and economists call "cheap signaling" - and another to prove willingness to translate belief into action. |
Consuming Happiness
| We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. |
Chess
| Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. |
Relativity - نسبیت
| Let me start with a fundamental observation: Most people don't know what they want unless they see it in context. We don't know what kind of racing bike we want - until we see a champ in the Tour de France ratcheting the gears on a particular model. We don't know what kind of speaker system we like - until we hear a set of speakers that sounds better than the previous one. We don't even know what we want to do with our lives - until we find a relative or a friend who is doing just what we think we should be doing. Everything is relative, and that's the point. |
Elephant Herders
| Either don't befriend elephant herders, or build a house commensurate with elephants. |
یا مکن با پیل بانان دوستی، یا بنا کن خانهای در خورد پیل. |
Keep up the good work
| In alchemy, there exists the concept of the "Great Work," the conscious quest for the philosophers' stone, or ultimate realization. Although it usually becomes apparent that on the path all tasks and goals are absurd, at another point on the spiral, doing a useless task with a sense of purpose produces surprising results. With the proper method the stone is produced. |
If there is a judge
| To avoid the tension that might result from trying to improve a situation by imposing standards on it, relax into a state of non-comparison and non-urgency. Live in reality as it presents itself instead of hoping for some incredible miracle that will occur out there somewhere, back there, or up there in the future as soon as you get it together. |
Poverty of Attention
| Information consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. | اطلاع توجه دریافت کننده را مصرف میکند. بنابراین، ثروت در اطلاع فقر در توجه ایجاد میکند. |
Two Pieces of Wheat
| My father sold paradise for two grains of wheat. I would not be his son if I didn't sell it for barley. |
پدرم روضه رضوان به دو گندم بفروخت. ناخلف باشم من گر به جوئی نفروشم. |
a well
| What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. |
info architecture
| Architecture seeks to reconcile art and engineering, but often Information Architecture seems to be about reining in the creatives. | هدف معماری تلفیق هنر و مهندسی است، اما به نظر میرسد که هدف "معماری اطلاعات" غالباٌ کوتاه اوردن خلاقیان میباشد. |
Baghdad Delights
| A cow once came to Baghdad. It roamed from one riverbank to the other. Out of all the luxuries, delights and tastes to be had there, it saw naught but two melon rinds. |
گاو در بغداد آيد يك زمان او رود از اين كران تا آن كران از همه عيش و خوشيها و مزه او نبيند جز دو پوست خربزه |
non-prime labor cohort
| You are a member of the non prime labor cohort, free to disperse in search of amenities. |
Keep it simple
| It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. (Variant: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.) |
Conceal Real Opinions
| Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. |
debugging
| A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail. |
I don’t know
| I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. |
Nothing happens fast
| Nothing really happens fast. Everything happens at such a rate that by the time it happens, it all seems normal. | هیچ چیزی سریع اتفاق نمیافتد. هر چیزی به سرعتی اتفاق میافتد که هنگامی که اتفاق افتاده، عادی به نظر میرسد. |
