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@@ -3378,4 +3378,83 @@ Woolsey—Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a
problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution
they cannot understand.
%
-I'm proud of my humility.
+I’m proud of my humility.
+%
+It’s a questionable day. Ask somebody something.
+%
+Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
+%
+This is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
+And now you know why.
+%
+Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
+— Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
+%
+If you waste your time cooking, you’ll miss the next meal.
+%
+The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to
+your face does not approach what your best friends say
+behind your back. — Alfred De Musset
+%
+All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
+%
+Profits over people.
+%
+I know what you download...
+%
+Armchair Politics.
+%
+Cutler Webster’s Law: There are two sides to
+every argument, unless a person is personally
+involved, in which case there is only one.
+%
+An apple every eight hours will keep three
+doctors away.
+%
+Always try to do things in chronological order;
+it’s less confusing that way.
+%
+Wisdom is rarely found on the best—seller list.
+%
+If you can keep your head when everybody round
+you is losing theirs, then it’s very probable that
+you don’t understand the situation.
+%
+Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
+— John Lehman
+%
+Leadership involves finding a parade and getting
+in front of it. — John Naisbitt, “Megatrends”
+%
+Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you
+is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it?
+— Anthony Hope
+%
+Davis’s Dictum: Problems that go away by
+themselves, come back by themselves.
+%
+A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is
+one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant
+conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
+— Lisa Kirk
+%
+Practice yourself what you preach. — Titus Maccius Plautus
+%
+“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If
+your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down
+people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken
+%
+Steinbach’s Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test
+for an error condition you don’t know how to handle.
+%
+Nothing succeeds like success.
+%
+The only constant is change.
+%
+Misery loves company.
+%
+The cost of living only goes up.
+%
+If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank
+owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars,
+you own the bank. — American Proverb