José Manuel Peres Jorge

Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias

4200-464 Porto

Portugal

+351 225 571 100

+351 225 505 050
http://www.fep.up.pt/docentes/jjorge/

"Eloignez vos tentes, rapprochez vos coeurs" Proverbe Tuareg          "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi!" Lampedusa           "Ama como a estrada começa" Mário Cesariny          "The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out" Babington Macauley          "A fotografia existe para ensinar a ver" Fernando Lemos          "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" Saint-Exupéry          "Yesterday’s tomorrow is not today" Lawrence Alloway          "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good" Ludwig Mies van der Rohe        "Le bon Dieu est dans le detail" Flaubert - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe         "Less is more" Robert Browning - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe          "Less is a bore" Robert Venturi           "The only thing that we have to fear is fear itself" Franklin Roosevelt          "Having looked at monetary policy from both sides now, I can testify that central banking in practice is as much art as science. Nonetheless, while practising this dark art, I have always found the science quite useful" Alan Blinder          "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were and ask why not." Robert F. Kennedy          "Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero" Horace          "Most people don't see the world as it is.....they see it as they are" Unknown author         "Life, liberty, and estate / Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Locke / Jefferson/ Unknown author         "You have to know the rules to break them" -- Unknown author      "Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous" -- Confucius     “Hume’s Fork: Either our actions are determined, in which case we are not responsible for them, or they are the result of random events, in which case we are not responsible for them” -- Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy     “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov          "Whether the angels play only Bach in praising God I am not quite sure: I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart." -- Karl Barth           "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981          "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.          “Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duel          “Computers in the future may weight no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949          "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943          "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957          "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.          "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977          “Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.” -- Woody Allen          “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” --Stephen F Roberts          Love Laws “All the good ones are taken”           Tech Laws “New systems generate new problems”           Computer Laws “Any given program, when running, is obsolete”           Commerce Laws “To err is human, to forgive is not company policy”        Teaching Laws “You never catch on until after the test”          "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar." Antonio Machado          "Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés." Georges Clemenceau        “A gentleman is someone who always says what he means because then people know that he means what he says”—Anonymous       " Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident" - Bernard of Chartres (often mistakenly attributed to Isaac Newton)