Suddenly great?

"No great thing is created suddenly." - Epictetus

Via: Alex

Photo: Dejan, Museum of Too Modern Art

Fun Theory.

How to evolve? With the help of fun!
Thanks, iAlja, for this great video and post.

Only tools and mechanisms.

Technology is only a tool. Market is only a mechanism that separates effective from ineffective.

How we use technology (for nuclear weapons or nuclear power stations) and how much wilderness we leave on market - this depends on us only.

Blaž Kos

Photo: Dejan

Plan.

Plan to be surprised.

From Dan in Real Life (2007)

Photo: Dejan

What cripples kids?

Taras Kermauner gives precise description of briliant father character in Bogdan Novak's novel Niki: "Reader is disgusted while following his deformed behaviour, moralistic violence of archaic authoritarianism, which cripples children, instead of rising them through love and solidarity into free people."

Slovene original: "Sijajen je lik očeta - gradbenika; bralcu se upira, ko sledi njegovemu deformiranemu značaju, moralističnemu nasilju arhaične avtoritarnosti, ki otroke pohablja, namesto, da bi jih vzgajal v ljubezni in solidarnosti v svobodne ljudi."

Photo: Dejan

Top-notch or only good?

"Kaplan has taught me that wise man has plenty of ideas and the only thing that differentiates top-notch of only good is the way how idea is carried out, how it becomes reality."

A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter

Photo: Dejan

Religion and culture.

Another religion/culture clash. Only in Slovene, unfortunately. Try translate.google.com.

Photo: www.terrafolk.org

Human imperfection neglects serious/precise approach?

"So don't brood over everything in that super-serious way of yours. All of us (by which I mean all of us, both normal and not-so-normal) are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. We don't live with the mechanical precision of a bank account or by measuring all our lines and angles with rulers and protractors. Am I right?"

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Photo: Dejan

Give a way to hand it to you.

"If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you."

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Photo: Dejan - flower giving bees a way