“It would be easier to get a computer to cry than to get Estonians to share their innermost feelings.” CultureEstoniaEstonians Book:Xenophobe's Guide to the Estonians Source: Xenophobe's Guide to the Estonians
“No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.” WorldTwoFoundPortEstoniaEstonians Author:Ernest Hemingway
“In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to make propaganda in Estonia to fight the Finnish programs' popularity. They got millions from the government, but what they made was not propaganda at all! They simply made good, entertaining programs - no one in Estonia recognized them as propaganda, only Russia thought it was, so they got away with it. Of course, Russia provided their own propaganda programs, but Estonians knew to avoid them.” MadeIdeasGovernmentFightingCoursesMillionsTvsProgramRussiaCleverPropagandaEntertainingPopularityProgrammersMoscowFinnishEstoniaEstonians Author:Jaak Kilmi
“You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.” KnowsTwoCountrySchoolValuesBehindsKnow HowSuccessfulComputerMessagesBuiltDecadesIronPushingCurtainsPublic SchoolComputer ScienceDevelopersGdpEbaySkypeIron CurtainEstoniaEstonians Author:Alexis Ohanian
“I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.” SaidEnoughVoiceSpaceDrinkingBottomGlassesDrunkClosestPsychicsTranscendenceTranscendentPersephoneSmall VoiceCallasEstonians Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'” PeopleLanguageOne DayEstoniaEstonians Author:Carmen Kass
“I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.” ThinkingDonePastParentBlameHatedCan't ChangeEstonians Author:Carmen Kass
“We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.” PeopleFeelsBeliefProudIndependentEstoniaEstonians Author:Carmen Kass
“You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantEndsEffectsRight NowOne DayEnd Of The WorldGreenhousesEstoniaEstonians Author:Carmen Kass