... [people] make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx, 1963

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

This quote reminds me a lot my own life. Or probably said a lot to modern life of almost everyone these days. It is a conversation I have had recently with bgm regarding the way we try to know from everything in our life - from repainting and repairing the appartment, to programming and setting up an audio-video machine, to educating our children and to living a decent, interesting and long life... Thanks Marcin for the quote :0)

Here is a saying I heard recently, and I wish to share it, by wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody!

Some things from the past disappear but others open a window to the future, these are the ones I want to recover. /blockquote> -- Mario Benedetti