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Date of removal - motto. Most recent on top (until someone decides differently and re-edits...)

2004-05-17

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of territory through connection and influence -- this is what Go is all about.

(Quote from: Go Winds, Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 1999)

2004-05-05

 Student: Master, what is the greatest game invented by Man?
 Master: Chess!
 Student: What about Go?
 Master: Go existed before Man did.
 (Wording by ChadMiller at  c2.com)

2004-04-25

"More than a contest, go is an art. Therefore I always think about new moves and new ideas. That's natural if you want to genuinely plumb the mysteries of go." -- Kikuchi Yasuro, famous Japanese amateur player, frequent winner of amateur championships in Japan, founder of a go school, and teacher of various top pros such as Yamashita Keigo.


2004-03-05

Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler

- Einstein


2004-02-20

Who needs girls when you have GO?

Stefan: Why settle for one if you can have both?

Tamsin: Who needs men when you can have go? Go's a good deal more useful! :-)

ChrisSchack: You have maybe something of an unusual perspective on the matter, but I can't bring myself to disagree...

Happy New Year Everyone!


2004-02-11

Nothing is so bad that it can't be good for something.


2004-02-08

Only the body is shed; the mind is forever in the maze of 19 lines-Touya Kouyo, Hikaru no Go Game 149

2004-01-15

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt.

(The years as they come bring many agreeable things with them; As they go, they take many away.)

-- Horace: Ars Poetica


2003-12-20

"SL is a large sandbox, in fact, it is so large some people mistake it for a beach."

- Arno


2003-12-13

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

- F. P. Jones

2003-09-03

"How many songs it takes for you to see/You can bomb the world to pieces/You can't bomb it into peace"

-- Michael Franti

2003-August-01

"Philosophy has objectives and no rules, mathematics has rules and no objectives."

-- Seen in English Room on KGS

2003-July-15

"Shakespeare was just some lucky monkey."

-- Dieter at Luck in Go

2003-July-07

If your wife gives you a hard time at home - tenuki.


2003-June-26

"A knight in Go is like a hotdog in a french restaurant."


2003-June-18

"Why?"

-- a beginner after losing

2003-June-07

"Go is all that matters. Well, there are other things in life, but they are gote and worth less than 10 points."

-- anonym

2003-June-06

"Don't bite the goban, bite the seed."

-- Frs

2003-May-23

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."

--Sir Winston Churchill

2003-May-12

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

- Nietzsche

2003-04-12

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -Yoda


2003-03-28

"'To be is to do.' - Sartre. 'To do is to be.' - Rousseau. 'Shoo-be-doo-be-doo.' - Sinatra."


2003-02-28

"It's easier to destroy than to create." -- Desperado (Movie)


2002-11-03

"Better to fail and learn, than to succeed too easily and fail to learn."--Anon.


2002-10-23

If you study something, you have to use it in a game, otherwise you haven't really digested it and made it your own. -- Michael Redmond


Fate Amenable to Change


2002-09-12

Nobody here is soft... Me neither!

Waya (from Hikaru no Go, chapter 83)

2002-06-26:

"Play out tactics where you can't see how your opponent can stop you, for if he does it means he really is the better player ..." -- the unknown librarian

(So that he can win easily or you become a hamete player?)


2002-05-05:

An amateur can be as strong as a professional even at the top level --Jie Li


2002-02-08:

 May the best of 2001 be the worst of 2002 (Scottish proverb)

Today is an average day: Worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow. (Russian saying)
;-) --BillSpight

...need to counter with a more optimistic Russian proverb: "It is better to be rich but healthy, than to be poor but sick." Lots of the former to all in 2002. --Stefan

HolIgor: I've corrected the proverb to correspond to the original.


2001-12-26:

 Get connected

2001-10-30:

 "Hane, I shrank the groups."
 -- Bill Taylor

2001-10-15:

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

2001-10-12:

 Don't sit on the grass.
 Smoke it :-))

2001-09-07:

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."

 -- Igor Stravinsky

2001-09-03:

 Forget worries, hand talk.

2001-07-28:

 Seichuudou (Movement within stillness)
 -- Iwamoto Kaoru 9 dan

2001-07-15:

 L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace.
 (Audacity, audacity, always audacity.)
 -- Napoleon Bonaparte

BillSpight: Wasn't that Danton?

 De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!

2001-07-12:

It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

(Paul Bryant - read on the website of Runner's World)


2001-04-30:

 There exists not a shred of evidence that life is serious.

2001-03-20:

Motto for tommorow:

 Never do that.

Motto for today:

 Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done.
 Practice is Art.  If you leave off, you are Lost.
        -- William Blake

2001-01-21:

 Do I contradict myself?
 Very well then I contradict myself;
 I am large, I contain multitudes.
 -- Walt Whitman

2001-01-10:

 It's better to make a different error each time
 than repeating the same error over and over.

this is in contrary to my motto:

 If it doesn't work, try something different.
 Maybe it doesn't work either. (c)BIG M

2000-11-15:

 Go is all fun and games until someone loses an eye.



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