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Old Mottos
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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."
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"
2003-August-01 "Philosophy has objectives and no rules, mathematics has rules and no objectives."
2003-July-15 "Shakespeare was just some lucky monkey."
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?"
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."
2003-June-06 "Don't bite the goban, bite the seed."
2003-May-23 "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
2003-May-12 "It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
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!
2002-06-26:
(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) ...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:
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. This is a copy of the living page "Old Mottos" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |