Date of removal - motto. Most recent on top (until someone decides differently and re-edits...)
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2004-10-25
"It's not that I can't find any good place to play... And not as much that I see too many - It's more of a matter that if you ask a truly strong player all are wrong" - Hopeless beginner (Secret nick;P)
2004-10-03
"Becoming one stone stronger is the supreme enjoyment" - Go Seigen - A Way of Play for the 21st Century
2004-09-25
"Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing." - Frederick the Great
2004-08-06 "The more I practice, the luckier I get." - Legendary professional golfer Gary Player, but we all know he was really talking about Go, even if he didn't know it.
2004-07-13
Rather than remembering joseki, Go is thinking about what the best move is in a position.--Yasunaga Hajime, Japanese pro-strength amateur, ghost writer for Kitani and Go Seigen of "Shin Fuseki Ho", and purported originator of the Chinese style opening.
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)
;-) --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:
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.