January 2011
13 posts
The first decade of The Future is behind us.
Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have cellphones, pagers are the norm; dial-up modems screech and scream to connect you an internet without Google, Facebook, or YouTube; Dolly has not yet been cloned; the first Playstation is the cutting edge in gaming technology; the Human Genome Project is creeping along; Mir is still in space; MTV still plays music; Forrest Gump...
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
– Albert Einstein.
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“You have to be fast, nice, and good to succeed. Anyone who tells you to pick two...”
– A Koford.
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Lost in translation
[British MP] Geoffrey Howe was in Russia one time speaking at an official dinner with the help of an interpreter. During his speech, he said: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak”, but it was translated thus:
“The vodka is alright, but the meat hasn’t been cooked properly”.
Via S4C.
