L'optimisme, ce n'est pas le refus de voir ce qui ne va pas, c'est le désir de ne pas s'y attarder. // Donne moi le courage de changer les choses que je peux changer, la sérénité d'accepter celles que je ne peux pas changer, et la sagesse de distinguer entre les deux. (Marc Aurèle) // Don't raise your voice; improve your argument. (Desmond Tutu) // Be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

15.10.15



cause i want California dreamin !

(Diana Krall à L'Olympia le 14/10/2015)

14.10.15



The problem is not the problem. 
The problem is your attitude about the problem 
Do you understand ? 
(Captain Jack Sparrow)

Demain je le lève de bonheur. 
(Louise A.)

13.10.15



Close some doors today. 
Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, 
but simply because they lead you nowhere. 
(Paulo Coelho)



Avec les erreurs on apprend. 
Avec le temps on comprend.

12.10.15


Relationship ... 


L'indifférence aux souffrances qu'on cause 
est la forme terrible et permanente de la cruauté. 
(Marcel Proust)

11.10.15

Ireland's call
Come the day and come the hour
Come the power and the glory
We have come to answer
Our country's call
From the four proud provinces of Ireland
From the mighty Glens of Antrim
From the rugged hills of Galway
From the walls of Limerick
And Dublin Bay
From the four proud provinces of Ireland
Hearts of steel
And heads unbowing
Vowing never to be broken
We will fight, until
We can fight no more
For the four proud provinces of Ireland
Ireland! Ireland!
Forever Ireland!


Chorus
Ireland, Ireland
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We'll answer Ireland's call




Pour étouffer par avance toute révolte, il ne faut pas s’y prendre de manière violente.  Il suffit de créer un conditionnement collectif si puissant que l’idée même de révolte ne viendra même plus à l’esprit des hommes. L’idéal serait de formater les individus dès la naissance en limitant leurs aptitudes biologiques innées.
Ensuite, on poursuivrait le conditionnement en réduisant de manière drastique l’éducation, pour la ramener à une forme d’insertion professionnelle. Un individu inculte n’a qu’un horizon de pensée limité et plus sa pensée est bornée à des préoccupations médiocres, moins il peut se révolter. Il faut faire en sorte que l’accès au savoir devienne de plus en plus difficile et élitiste. Que le fossé se creuse entre le peuple et la science, que l’information destinée au grand public soit anesthésiée de tout contenu à caractère subversif. Surtout pas de philosophie. Là encore, il faut user de persuasion et non de violence directe : on diffusera massivement, par la télévision, des divertissements flattant toujours l’émotionnel ou l’instinctif. On occupera les esprits avec ce qui est futile et ludique. Il est bon, dans un bavardage et une musique incessante, d’empêcher l’esprit de penser.
On mettra la sexualité au premier rang des intérêts humains. Comme tranquillisant social, il n’y a rien de mieux. En général, on fera en sorte de bannir le sérieux de l’existence, de tourner en dérision tout ce qui a une valeur élevée, d’entretenir une constante apologie de la légèreté ; de sorte que l’euphorie de la publicité devienne le standard du bonheur humain et le modèle de la liberté.
Le conditionnement produira ainsi de lui-même une telle intégration, que la seule peur – qu’il faudra entretenir – sera celle d’être exclus du système et donc de ne plus pouvoir accéder aux conditions nécessaires au bonheur. L’homme de masse, ainsi produit, doit être traité comme ce qu’il est : un veau, et il doit être surveillé comme doit l’être un troupeau. Tout ce qui permet d’endormir sa lucidité est bon socialement, ce qui menacerait de l’éveiller doit être ridiculisé, étouffé, combattu.
Toute doctrine mettant en cause le système doit d’abord être désignée comme subversive et terroriste et ceux qui la soutienne devront ensuite être traités comme tels. On observe cependant, qu’il est très facile de corrompre un individu subversif : il suffit de lui proposer de l’argent et du pouvoir.
Extrait du Meilleur des mondes d’Aldous Huxley (1932).



Certaines personnes sont comme des pièces de monnaie, 
deux faces et aucune valeur. 



The difference between pizza and you opinion ? 
I asked for pizza !

10.10.15


S'il y avait un impôt sur la connerie, 
l'était s'autofinancerait. 
(Coluche)



On va toujours trop loin pour ceux qui ne vont nulle part. 



Bear (big) nap !



Le prix Nobel d'Ecologie est attribué à Ségolène Royal pour avoir brassé plus de vent en 2015 que toutes les éoliennes mondiales. 
#InventeTonNobel

Le prix Nobel de la Plaie est attribuée à Nadine Morano
#InventeTonNobel


Si les contacts avec les étrangers lui étaient permis, il découvrirait que ce sont des créatures semblables à lui-même et que la plus grande partie de ce qu'on lui a raconté est fausse. 
Le monde fermé, scellé, dans lequel il vit, serait brisé, et la crainte, la haine, la certitude de son bon droit, desquelles dépend sa morale, pourraient disparaître. 
(G.Orwell, 1984)

Le pouvoir n'est pas un moyen, il est une fin. 
On n'établit pas une dictature pour sauver une révolution. 
On fait une révolution pour établir une dictature. 
(G. Orwell, 1984)


- tu fais quoi dans la vie ? 
- je fais de mon mieux. 



Je pars à l'Ile Maurice. 
Je pars à Lille, Maurice. 

What a difference ponctuation can make !


A woman, without her man, is nothing. 
A woman : without her, man is nothing. 
What a difference ponctuation can make !

9.10.15

(CodeGen) Learning of the week - Do You Have a Mindset of Growth?
Many years ago two salesmen were sent to a remote island by a shoe manufacturer. The goal of their trip was to investigate this new market, and to report their findings back to headquarters on the potential of the market.
The first salesman came back with a rather dismal report, “There’s no potential at all here, because nobody wears shoes.” While the second salesman came back with a rather different reply, “There’s massive potential in this island, because nobody wears shoes."
Learning:
If you don’t feel that you can change a situation, you act one way. But if you see the world as a series of opportunities, you act differently.
Surely it’s no surprise to any of you that two people could have completely different responses to the same situation. But what’s interesting here is how they are different.
Shoe Salesmen #1, who only saw a hopeless situation, was “sorting for limitation”, while Shoe Salesmen #2, who saw a glorious opportunity, was “sorting for possibility.”
A person who is sorting for limitation is noticing for all the things that are/ or could go wrong, all the ways in which they will not be able to fulfill whatever it is they want. But on the other hand a person sorting for possibility, is noticing for all the ways in which they can get what they want.
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Il ne peut y avoir que deux solutions : 
soit j'ai raison, 
soit tu as tort. 


Bref, j'ai tourné la page.

8.10.15


Si l'on y réfléchit bien, le Christ est le seul anarchiste qui ait vraiment réussi.
(André Malraux)

Pour l’essentiel, l’homme est ce qu’il cache : un misérable petit tas de secrets.
(André Malraux)

7.10.15

(CodeGen) - Learning of the Week - The potatoes, eggs, and coffee.
Once a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.

He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity – THE BOILING WATER.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity or change knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
Learning:
In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us.
Learning of the week - Nails on the fence
The next time you are tempted to say something hurtful to someone just because you’re angry, you might want to stop and remember this story: it’s a keeper. Read it here.
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."
The little boy then understood how powerful his words were. He looked up at his father and said "I hope you can forgive me father for the holes I put in you."
"Of course I can my son," said the father.
Learning
Be mindful and take care of what you say when you are angry.
Remember forgiveness is a gift you give yourself
(CodeGen) - Learning of the Week - 
As Narrated by the Late Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam
Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.
By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal. It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that “the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support”. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite – and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."
I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.
Learning
Leaders should have the emotional intelligence, courage and qualities to know how to manage failure.
Learning of the week - Gift of the heart!
A young man while roaming the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet he filled his leather canteen so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher.
After a four-day journey he presented the water to the old man who took a deep drink, smiled warmly and thanked his student lavishly for the sweet water.
Later, the student tasted the water. He spat it out, saying it was awful. It apparently had become stale because of the old leather container.
The student challenged his teacher: "Master, the water was foul. Why did you pretend to like it?"
The teacher replied, "You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter."!!!
We may understand this lesson best when we receive innocent gifts of love from little children. Whether it's a crushed paper painting or a clay figure, the natural and proper response is appreciation and expressed thankfulness because we love the idea within the gift.
Learning:
Gratitude doesn't always come naturally. Unfortunately, many value only the thing given rather than the feeling embodied in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude. After all, gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart!!
Also, when we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest of appreciation is not to utter mere words, but to live by them.
(CodeGen) Learning of the week - Paradigm Shift
I experienced one Sunday morning on a subway in New York;
People were sitting quietly -- some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene.
Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway. The children were so loud and rambunctious that instantly the whole climate changed. The man sat down next to me and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious to the situation.
The children were yelling back and forth, throwing things, even grabbing people's papers. And yet, the man sitting next to me did nothing. It was difficult not to feel irritated. I could not believe that he could be so insensitive to let his children run wild like that and do nothing about it, taking no responsibility at all. It was easy to see that everyone else on the subway felt irritated, too.
So finally, with what I felt was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, "Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn't control them a little more"
The man lifted his gaze as if to come to a consciousness of the situation for the first time and said softly,
"Oh, you're right. I guess I should do something about it.
We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago. I don't know what to think, and I guess they don't know how to handle it either."
Can you imagine what I felt at that moment? My paradigm shifted. Suddenly I saw things differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently. My irritation vanished. I didn't have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man's pain. Feelings of sympathy and compassion flowed freely. 'Your wife just died? Oh, I'm so sorry. Can you tell me about it? What can I do to help?" Everything changed in an instant.
(Stephen Covey)
Learning:
We never know the stories of others, why they act the way they do but we could try assuming people have a reason which, if we knew it, would change our reactions to them from negative to positive.
(CodeGen) Learning of the week - The 99 Club
Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content. One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked.
This fascinated the King; the Supreme Ruler of the Land, unhappy and gloomy, while a lowly servant had so much joy. The King thought to himself, “Why is he so happy?”
Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King’s woes and the servant’s story, the advisor said, “Your Majesty, I believe that the servant has not been made part of the 99 Club.”
“The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?” the King inquired.
The advisor replied, “Your Majesty, you shall see if you place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant’s doorstep.”
The curious king had it done. When the servant saw the bag lying at the door, he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy… So many gold coins!
He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that there were 99 coins. He wondered, “What could’ve happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins!”
He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn that gold coin and complete his collection.
From that day, the servant’s life changed. He became overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold coin. He stopped singing while he worked.
Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King became more curious. He summoned his advisor who explained: “Your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club.”
Learning:
“We have so much to be thankful for and we can live with very little in our lives, but the minute we are given something bigger and better, we want even more! We are not the same happy contented person we used to be, we want more and more and by wanting more and more we don't realize the price we pay for it. We lose our sleep, our happiness; we hurt the people around us just as a price to pay for our growing needs and desires.
There are those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented, because they’re always yearning and striving for that extra coin. They keep telling themselves: “Let me get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life. And this goes on and on.. That is what joining The 99 Club is all about.
Happiness is not feeling, it is a choice!
(CodeGen) Learning of the week - Climb the ladder
A group of scientists placed five monkeys in a cage and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top. Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water. After a while, every time a monkey went up the ladder, the other monkeys beat him up. Eventually, no monkey dared to go up the ladder regardless of the temptation.
Scientists then decided to substitute one of the monkeys. The first thing the new monkey did was go up the ladder. Immediately the other monkeys beat him up. After several beatings, the new monkey learned not to climb the ladder even though he was unaware of the reason behind this. A second monkey was substituted and the same result occurred. The first monkey participated in the beating of the second monkey. A third monkey was substituted and the same was repeated. The fourth was the same and finally the fifth monkey was replaced.
What was left was a group of five monkeys that continued to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder even though they had never received a cold shower.
If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they beat up all those who attempted to go up the ladder, their answer would probably be "I don't know. That's just how things are done around here."
Learning:
People sometimes continue doing the same old actions in their life, workplace etc… How many times have we heard "It has always been done this way. Don't mess with what works."
Instead of challenging these assumptions, many of us, like the monkeys, simply keep doing what has been done before without even knowing the reason behind it! It's the easiest thing to do.
Our assumptions are our windows to the world. Let's scrub them off every once in a while, or light won't come in.
So let's break free and climb 'the ladder'.
(CodeGen) Learning of the week - The 7 wonders!
A class of junior school students had a study of the Seven Wonders of the World. As an activity the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some disagreement, the following were listed as the most voted by the students according to their knowledge and beliefs;
1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids
2. The Taj Mahal in India
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter’s Basilica
7. China’s Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a shy quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So the teacher asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list.
The girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.”
The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help you out.”
The girl hesitated, and then read, “I think the Seven Wonders of the World are”;
1. to Touch…
2. to Taste…
3. to See…
4. to Hear…
5. to Feel…
6. to Laugh…
7. And to Remember and also to Love.
The room was so quiet; you could have heard a pin drop.
Learning:
This is a gentle reminder to all of us who tend to overlook simple and ordinary things in life which are often the most wonderful wonders we would possess. The beauty is we don’t have to travel anywhere special to experience them if only we just took time to value them. There is no consciousness without senses and memories, Enjoy the gifts gifted by Mother Nature!


Ne dites jamais à quelqu'un qu'il a tort 
jusqu'à temps que vous ayez vus les choses de son point de vue. 

(CodeGen) Learning of the week - The spilled milk
A four year old boy was trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor—a veritable sea of milk!
When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of yelling at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, said, "Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge puddle of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?"
Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, "You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel, or a mop. Which do you prefer?" He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk.
His mother then said, "You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to properly carry a big bottle of milk with two tiny hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it." The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it.
What a wonderful lesson!
Learning:
Don't be afraid of your kids/subordinates making mistakes. Instead, understand that mistakes were just opportunities to learning something new . Even if the experiment "doesn’t work," we usually learn something valuable from it and grow.
(CodeGen) Learning of the week - The Black Dot
One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor handed out the question paper, with the text facing down as usual. Once he had handed them all out, he asked his students to turn the page and begin. To everyone's surprise, there were no questions....just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone's faces, told them the following:
"I want you all to write what you see there."
The students confused, got started on the inexplicable task.
At the end of the class, the professor took all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them with no exceptions described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, the shape , size etc. After all had been read, the classroom silent, the professor began to explain:
"I am not going to grade you on this. I just wanted to give you something to think about,
No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the Black Dot - and the same happens in our lives. We have a white paper to observe and enjoy, but we always focus on the dark spots.”
“Remember our life is a gift given to us with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate whether its big or small - nature renewing itself every day, our friends and family around us, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles we see every day.......Unfortunately we insist on focusing only on the Dark Spots - the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the disappointment with a friend the list goes on…”
Learning:
The dark spots are very small compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.
Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life. Enjoy each one of your blessings, each moment that life gives you. Be happy and live a life filled with LOVE AND HAPPINESS".
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At my company, ePrize, we often tell the “Meatloaf Story”: A mother is making meatloaf with her teenage daughter; a ritual they’ve been doing together for years. As part of the tradition, the two chefs cut the ends of each side of the meatloaf before putting it in the oven. One day, the teen asks, “Mom, why do we cut the ends off the meatloaf before we put it in the oven?”
Taken by surprise, the mom began to think. She had no good reason, other than that’s how her own mother did it and that was the way she learned. Together, the two called up grandma. “Grandma, why do we cut the ends off each side of the meatloaf before putting it in the oven?” After a brief laugh, the Grandmother admitted that she didn’t know the answer either. It was the way her own mother taught her. Tradition. It turns out her mother was living in a nearby nursing home, so they all went to visit.
Upon hearing the question, the 98-year-old great grandmother roared with laughter. “I have no idea why you are cutting the ends off the meatloaf! I used to do it only because I didn’t have a big enough pan!”
We define a “Meatloaf” as an out-of-date tradition. A system, process, or belief that may have made sense in the past but no longer has relevance. Unfortunately, most companies are filled with Meatloaves. By awakening your curiosity, you will be amazed at how many you discover.
This week, take a hard look around to see what meatloaf you have lying around. Gather a small team of people (no more than could be fed by two pizzas) and list out the Meatloaves in your organization. By identifying these useless, outdated concepts you can then prioritize and attack them one-by-one to drive powerful change.
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The Silicon Valley Hierarchy of Needs 3.0 
a revised version of Maslow Pyramid)




Sooner or later
everyone sits down to a 
banquet of consequences. 
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Je n'ai pas besoin de contrôler ma colère, 
j'ai besoin que les gens arrêtent de m'énerver. 


6.10.15



Dans la vie, 
il faut répondre aux imbéciles par le silence 
et aux cons par la patience. 
.... là je crois bien que je dois être silencieux et patient

Les hommes politiques ne connaissent la misère que par les statistiques. 
On ne pleure pas devant les chiffres. 
(Abbé Pierre)


Live the moment. 
Leave the phone.



A la une du "International New-York Times" livré ce matin dans ma chambre d'hôtel d'Athènes.
- le DRH d'Air France tout dépenaillé 
- la rhétorique du FN
... Voilà l'image de la France dans (une partie du) monde...
L'enfer c'est les autres écrivait Sartre. 
Je suis convaincu du contraire. 
L'enfer c'est soi-même coupé des autres. 
(L'abbé Pierre)

5.10.15


La résilience, c'est l'art de naviguer dans les torrents. 
(Boris Cyrulnik)


Expect nothing. 
Appreciate everything. 

Hollande il aime le rugby car c'est le seul sport où en avance en reculant 
(Anne Roumanoff)

4.10.15


Un tableau ne vit que
par celui qui le regarde. 
(Pablo Picasso)


Dieu est peut-être éternel, 
mais pas autant que la connerie humaine. 
(Pierre Desproges)

Il doit bien y avoir une formule pour se débarrasser de tous ces cons .... 

3.10.15



Catégorie de classement de l'espèce humaine selon des critères morphologiques ou culturels, sans aucune base scientifique et dont l'emploi est au fondement des divers racismes et de leurs pratiques. (Face à la diversité humaine, une classification sur les critères les plus immédiatement apparents [couleur de la peau surtout] a été mise en place et a prévalu tout au long du XIXe siècle. 
Les progrès de la génétique conduisent aujourd'hui à rejeter toute tentative de classification raciale chez les êtres humains.)



A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar... 
No one buys anything...
Bar declared a HUGE success.

La race blanche ou noire c’est une totale absurdité. Nos ancêtres sont partis d’Afrique il y a 75 000 ans. Donc au départ ils étaient tous noirs. Puis ils ont conquis le monde. (…) En réalité, il y a plus de similitudes entre un scandinave et un aborigène qu’entre un aborigène et un africain.
 (Axel Kahn)

I see Humans
but not Humanity \


There are the actual 4 seasons in the UK : 
- Winter
- Warmer Winter
- Wet Winter
- Extremely Freezing Winter




Don't quit !
Hollande : 2 millimètres d'humanités. 
Le reste c'est de la glace bleue avec un pilotage à 10 jours. 
(Jérome Cahuzac)
Hollande ? Un pilote de scooter sur un rond-point 
à l'affût de la première sortie. 
(Dominique Strauss-Kahn)