Wednesday, May 21, 2008

1000 visits!!!

Kiops' Blog reaches 1000 visits. Congratulations!!!

Since it was created in 4th October 2007, it has received a lot of visits from all around the world, specially from Europe and America.



Thanks to posts like "The Anchor", "Experience it again!", "Post Remember", "What else is there?" or "What does the song Gabriel by Lamb really mean?" the blog has reached 1000 visits and 1964 hits, what means I am not talking alone.

I hope to continue blogging for a long long time and receiving visits and interesting comments.

Thanks to everybody.

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Best Civ4 quotes - Part I

Fishing: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu

Hunting: "If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both." - Native American Saying

Sailing: "You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Unknown

Archery: "Do not throw the arrow which will return against you." - Kurdish Proverb

Metal Casting: "And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword." - The Bible, Matthew

Literature: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Sir Francis Bacon

Alphabet: "Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." - The Buddha

Compass: "The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Constitution: "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed, except by the lawful judgment of his peers." - The Magna Carta

Fascism: "The great masses of the people... Will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler (Misatributted)

Engineering: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Music: "If music be the food of love, play on." - William Shakespeare

Paper: "I cannot live without books" - Thomas Jefferson

Assembly Line: "People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." - Henry Ford

Education: "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." - Ali bin Abi-Talib

Replaceable Parts: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." - Aristotle

Biology: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

Liberalism: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased)

Gunpowder: "You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." - Al Capone

Democracy: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Winston Churchill

Corporation: "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce

Communism: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara

Ecology: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children" - Native American Song

Artillery: "Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." - Frederick the Great

Electricity: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." - Thomas Edison

Industrialism: "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." - Henry Ford

Computers: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak

Mass media: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde

Future tech: "The future will be better tomorrow." - Dan Quayle



So, What is the most interesting quote for you?

Play it!

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