[primitivesuave]

> He believes that big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas he prefers the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," he says.

What a profound and inspiring worldview.

[arjn]

Indeed. Here's another one :

"Luckily I'm not educated," he tells students. "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future."

[hoggle]

"If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die."

"I've accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness."

-Arunachalam Muruganantham

[jsmeaton]

That was my favourite too.

[yati]

Zen mind is the beginner's mind :)

[mjklin]

Reminds me of this quote:

"I would like to call your attention to a super piece of technology, the sailing ship. The sailing ship going through the sea is unlike a bulldozer. The sea closes behind the ship. The ship does no damage to the sea. The sailing ship employs the wind which is swirling ceaselessly around the earth without depleting any of the energy of the universe..." - Buckminster Fuller, from his piece in Alvin Toffler's book The Futurists.

[facepalm]

However, a lot of woods were transformed into deserts because all the trees were chopped down for building sailing ships.

[thaumasiotes]

Perhaps, but the difference between butterflies and mosquitoes isn't really in damage to the food (virtually zero in both cases)... it's in the fact that butterflies perform a service (pollination) for the flowers. Mosquitoes quite literally live and die by the lightness of their touch; compare the survival rates of human-feeding mosquitoes (not 100%, but not far off) and human-feeding horseflies (0%).

[cma]

http://www.mosquitoreviews.com/mosquitoes-niche-pollinate.ht...

[thaumasiotes]

Granted, but I think I'm safe in saying the comparison was mosquito-to-human vs butterfly-to-flower, not mosquito-to-flower vs butterfly-to-flower.

[dharmach]

When I show moon, look at the moon, not at my finger (another quote).

[bloodorange]

“Don't think, Feel, it is like a finger pointing out to the moon, don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

From 'Enter the Dragon': a quote from the great Master Lee himself!

[javert]

> What a profound and inspiring worldview.

You think so? If all those "mosquitos" decided to stop pestering you, you'd probably revise your analysis.