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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

In the country of the lie,
the truth is a disease
Gianni Rodari

Any idea that isn't completely absurd probably won't go very far.
Albert Einstein

Scientists investigate that which already is;
Engineers create that which has never been.
Albert Einstein

The best model of a cat is a cat; preferably the same cat
Norbert Wiener

Fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
(Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto XXVI, 119 – 120)

The cemeteries are full of indispensable men
Charles de Gaulle




“The popular, often self-righteous and apparently innocuous demand that all research should be relevant to our social needs is one of the greatest dangers to the advancement of science.
To insist on relevance in basic research is rather like insisting on naturalism in art; if you are successful you end up with something not radically new, but comfortably familiar.”
Hanbury Brown








Mi sedetti volentieri dalla parte del torto avendo compreso che dalla parte della ragione i posti erano già stati tutti prenotati
Bertolt Brecht

I sat in the wrong willingly having understood that in the right places were already fully booked
Bertolt Brecht


L'uomo non smette di giocare perchè invecchia,
ma invecchia perchè smette di giocare
G. B. Shaw

The man did not stop playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop playing
G.B. Shaw

I like: Pink Floyd, Steve Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Patti Smith, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, The Who, Canned Heat, Litfiba, Fabrizio De Andrè, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Ivan Graziani, Jethro Tull,
Bob Pease, Jim Williams,
Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Olivier Folmi,
Magritte, Martin Cornelius Escher, Salvador Dalì, Alphonse Muncha
FotoSfera photography group,
the first sip of beer,
Cactacee

I hate: ...cappuccino, just after lunch;