Some mottos and observations


"Jeżeli jest tak dobrze, to dlaczego jest tak źle?"

(E. Kwiatkowski, hard to translate, Polish specialty?)


"Mijn thuis is waar m'n biertje staat."

(written on the beer glass placer, Leuven. Do you remember it, Max? And who can understand it?)


"The early bird is for the cat."

(relistic transformation of "the early bird catches the worm", from "The UnDutchables" by C.White & L.Boucke)


"There are 24 hours in every day, but, if that is not enough, you can always use the night."

(Dr. G. Krause, from IACM Expressions, No 1, 1996)


"Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO."

(From a fan of Gates)


The laws of Parkinson:

1) Parkinson's Law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"

2) Law of Extravagance: "Expenditure rises to meet income"

3) Law of Triviality: "The time spent on any item of the agenda is in inverse proportion to the sum involved"

(from C.N. Parkinson "The Law or Still in Pursuit")



"The experience of the USSR is an example how the socialist system accelerates the growth of welfare, knowledge and culture of the society and makes them easier."

(B. Bierut, from Inżynieria i Budownictwo (Engineering and Building) no. 10, 1951)