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-You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could
-know how seldom they do. — Olin Miller
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-Computer science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing
-to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning
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-God doesn’t play dice. — Albert Einstein
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-As modern times promote hasty eating to a large extent, it is not surprising to
-learn that a great astronomer said: “Two things are infinite, as far as we know
-— the universe and human stupidity.” Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: a Revision
-of Freud’s Theory and Method, Frederick S. Perls
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-Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me,
-because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
-We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some
-things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns–the ones we don’t
-know we don’t know. — Donald Rumsfeld
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-Everything is local.
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-I read it on the Internet, it has to be true!
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-A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions
-that make it fail. — Jerry Ogdin
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-If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. —
-Anatole France
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-“And who better understands the Unix—nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it
-he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of
-the task, gains merit by not coding?” Upon hearing this, the programmer was
-enlightened.
-— The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-Immortality — a fate worse than death. — Edgar A. Shoaff
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-Intellect annuls Fate.
-So far as a man thinks, he is free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-Let’s call it an accidental feature. — Larry Wall
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-In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes
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-A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I
-believe everything positively stinks. — Lew Col
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-Ah, but a man’s grasp should exceed his reach,
-Or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning, — “Andrea del Sarto”
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-All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri
-%
-All men know the utility of useful things;
-but they do not know the utility of futility. — Chuang—tzu
-%
-And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the
-hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran
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-Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than ‘Microsoft,’ don’t you? —
-Patrick Volkerding
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-Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and I’m blinded by a bright, white
-light.  It’s God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In
-a booming voice, He says: “THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM
-FOR THE 386”. — Matt Welsh
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-Never trust an operating system you don’t have sources for. — Unknown
-Source
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-Parkinson’s Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay an important decision, the
-good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
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-Reliable source: The guy you just met.
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-Thyme’s Law: Everything goes wrong at once.
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-Netscape is not a newsreader, and probably never shall be. — Tom Christiansen
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-You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have,
-for instance. — Franklin P. Jones
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-To be is to program.
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-There’s no easy quick way out, we’re gonna have to live through our
-whole lives, win, lose, or draw. — Walt Kelly
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-Illiterate? Write today for free help!
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-Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.
-%
-Hlade’s Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person —
-they will find an easier way to do it.
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-Davis’ Law of Traffic Density: The density of rush—hour traffic
-is directly proportional to 1.5 times the amount of extra time
-you allow to arrive on time.
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-Resisting temptation is easier when you think you’ll probably get
-another chance later on.
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-Do more than anyone expects, and pretty soon everyone will expect more.
-%
-Turnaucka’s Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its
-electrical cord.
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-Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence
-and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the
-certainty of corruption by authority. — Lord Acton
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-We can predict everything, except the future.
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-A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
-bad measures. — Daniel Webste
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-Agnes’ Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
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-Weiler’s Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it
-himself.
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-Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained
-by stupidity.
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-Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take
-Hofstadter’s Law into account.
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-Murphy’s Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.
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-Pryor’s Observation: How long you live has nothing to do
-with how long you are going to be dead.
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-Whitehead’s Law: The obvious answer is always overlooked.
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-G. B. Shaw’s Law: Those who can — do.
-Those who can’t — teach.
-Martin’s Extension: Those who cannot teach — administrate.
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-Johnson’s First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the
-most inconvenient possible time.
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-Guru: A computer owner who can read the manual.
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-First law of debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the
-difference.
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-Woodward’s Law: A theory is better than its explanation.
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-Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
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-Hildebrant’s Principle: If you don’t know where you are going, any road will
-get you there.
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-Committee: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group
-decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen
-%
-“The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe.
-The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.”
-— Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the
-Local Food Front
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-“The command—line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed.
-“Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a
-graphical user interface.”
-Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at
-the master’s hand.
-— The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-The master replied: “There is a defect, and I am considering the best way to
-repair it.”
-The novice said, “You preach often about the importance of setting priorities.
-How, then, can you obsess about something so tiny and unimportant?” Without
-saying a word,
-the master raised his staff and brought it down hard upon
-the bare left foot of the novice, breaking his smallest toe.
-— Codeless Code
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-“Master Foo, I am gravely troubled. In my youth, those who followed the Great
-Way of Unix used
-software that was simple and unaffected, like ed and mailx. Today, they use vim
-and mutt.
-Tomorrow I fear they will use KMail and Evolution, and Unix will have become
-like
-Windows — bloated and covered over with GUIs.”
-Master Foo said: “But what software do you use when you want to draw a
-poster?”
-— The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-“Master Foo,” he asked “why do Unix users not employ antivirus programs?
-And defragmentors? And malware cleaners?”
-Master Foo smiled, and said “When your house is well constructed,
-there is no need to add pillars to keep the roof in place.”
-— The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-The recruiter said, “I have observed that Unix hackers scowl or become
-annoyed when
-I ask them how many years of experience they have in a new programming
-language. Why is this so?”
-Master Foo stood, and began to pace across the office floor.
-The recruiter was puzzled, and asked “What are you doing?”
-“I am learning to walk,” replied Master Foo.
-— The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-“Is your code ever completely without stain and flaw?” demanded Master Foo.
-“No,” admitted the zealot, “no man’s is.”
-“The wisdom of the Patriarchs” said Master Foo, “was that they knew they
-were fools.”
-Upon hearing this, the zealot was enlightened.
-— The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-Lewis’s Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn’t
-belong to anyone, ever.
-%
-Dow’s Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level,
-the greater the confusion.
-%
-Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
-— Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”
-%
-Slous’ Contention: If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck with it.
-%
-Udall’s Fourth Law: Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences
-you
-don’t like.
-%
-Sacher’s Observation: Some people grow with responsibility — others merely
-swell.
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-Law of the Jungle: He who hesitates is lunch.
-%
-Fifth Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the
-feeling that
-there is nothing important to do.
-%
-Boucher’s Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music
-several octaves higher than originally written.
-%
-Booker’s Law: An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
-%
-Williams and Holland’s Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven
-by statistical
-methods.
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-Burke’s Postulates: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking
-about.
-Don’t create a problem for which you do not have the answer.
-%
-Barth’s Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people
-into two
-types, and those who don’t.
-%
-Hanson’s Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always
-too many days
-before Saturday.
-%
-Peers’ Law: The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
-%
-Stone’s Law: One man’s “simple” is another man’s “huh?”
-%
-Government’s Law: There is an exception to all laws.
-%
-Hitchcock’s Staple Principle: The stapler runs out of staples only while you
-are trying to
-staple something.
-%
-Finagle’s Seventh Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.
-%
-Chism’s Law of Completion: The amount of time required to complete a government
-project is
-precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.
-%
-Chisolm’s First Corollary to Murphy’s Second Law: When things just can’t
-possibly get any worse, they will.
-%
-Murphy’s Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will.
-(2) Nothing is as easy as it looks.
-(3) Everything takes longer than you think it will.
-%
-Carswell’s Corollary: When ever man comes up with a better mousetrap,
-nature invariably comes up with a better mouse.
-%
-Putt’s Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people:
-Those who understand what they do not manage.
-Those who manage what they do not understand.
-%
-Rule of the Great: When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep
-thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
-%
-There must be more to life than having everything. — Maurice Sendak
-%
-In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. — Dr. Laurence J. Peter
-%
-The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer;
-and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of
-anarchy and despotism.
-— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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-While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own
-form of misery.
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-He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion
-%
-How come everyone’s going so slow if it’s called rush hour?
-%
-Work expands to fill the time available. — Cyril Northcote Parkinson, “The
-Economist”, 1955
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-Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.
-Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done.
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-Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium.
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-To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard
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-To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three
-persons, two of them absent.
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-If a thing’s worth doing, it is worth doing badly. — G. K. Chesterton
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-There’s no such thing as a free lunch. — Milton Friedman
-%
-The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to
-fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to
-disregard the first lesson of economics. — Thomas Sowell
-%
-The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny
-can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he
-confuses it with feeling. — Thomas Sowell
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-It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own
-ignorance. — Thomas Sowell
-%
-If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-— Maslow’s Golden Hammer
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-Ninety percent of everything is crap. — Theodore Sturgeon
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-It’s easier to take it apart than to put it back together. — Washlesky
-%
-Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to
-know the answers. — Gene Wolfe, “The Claw of the Conciliator”
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-Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus.
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-You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra
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-Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn’t expect to be paid back.
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-In war, truth is the first casualty. — U Thant
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-The hardware designer said: “It is rumored that you are a great programmer.
-How many lines of code do you write per year?”
-Master Foo replied with a question: “How many square inches of silicon do you
-lay out per year?” — The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-The student said: “How, then, are those enlightened in the Unix Way to return
-to the Windows world?”
-Master Foo said: “To return to Windows, you have but to boot it up.” —
-The Unix Koans of Master Foo
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-The master considered this, and said: “It is certain that we could forgo
-testing altogether, if we knew our code to be perfect. How, then, may we
-achieve perfection?”
-“Through practice,” said one monk.
-“Through diligent study,” said another.
-“Through the appeasement of the proper gods,” said a third.
-— Codeless Code
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-If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat. —
-Simone de Beauvoir
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-Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick
-to possibilities; truth isn’t.
-— Mark Twain
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-There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the
-truth without lying. — Josh Billings
-%
-“They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level dwelling
-preferable.
-The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the
-blasts of fortune.
-Buildings have need of a good foundation, that lie so much exposed to the
-weather.”
-— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
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-“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.”
-— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
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-The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
-— Robert Frost
-%
-Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version
-of glibc installed,
-and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’.
-— “Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon” from Charlie Harvey
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-The words fly away, the writings remain.
-%
-Rule of Life Number One — Never get separated from your luggage.
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-He who knows nothing, knows nothing.
-But he who knows he knows nothing knows something.
-And he who knows someone whose friend’s wife’s brother knows nothing,
-he knows something.  Or something like that.
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-“The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will
-never solve — politics.” — Gavin Baker
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-(1) The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
-(2) No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
-(3) Boredom and drudgery are evil.
-(4) Freedom is good.
-(5) Attitude is no substitute for competence.
-— Eric S. Raymond
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-“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day.
-Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.”
-— Unknown
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-“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.”
-— Unknown
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-“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s
-got a responsibility.”
-— Newton Minow
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-“A library is infinity under a roof.”
-— Gail Carson Levine
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-“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”
-— Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics
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-“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”
-— Navajo Proverb
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-“During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel
-business.”
-— Mark Twain
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-The 1% Rule: The number of people who create content on the Internet represents
-approximately
-1% of the people who view that content.
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-Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the
-world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan
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-I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
-War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein
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-Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? — Steven Wright
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-Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
-Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading
-it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
-from where you left them to where you can’t find them.
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-If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. — Norm
-Schryer
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-It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. —
-Aeschylus
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-Olmstead’s Law: After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than
-done.
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-I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.  There’s a
-knob called “brightness”, but it doesn’t seem to work. — Gallagher
-%
-Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means
-for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley
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-Anthony’s Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least
-accessible
-corner of the workshop.
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-Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. — Hans Liepmann
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-Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. The greatest feeling?
-Landing... Landing is the greatest feeling you can have.
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-“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things
- we don’t know yet.” — Ambrose Bierce
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-If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
-of different places, just write a Unix operating system. — Linus Torvalds
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-Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree
-of life.
-— Proverbs
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-If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the
-tree falleth, there it shall be.
-— Ecclesiastes
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-“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we
-go in the scale of life,
-the greater is the capacity for suffering.”
-— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
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-“The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.”
-— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
-%
-“All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not
-filled.”
-— Ecclesiastes
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-The Fifth Law of Computer Programming: Any given program will expand to fill
-all available memory.
-%
-Corcoroni’s First Law of Bus Transportation: The bus that left the stop just
-before you got there is your bus.
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-Law of Annoyance: When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you’re
-certain you’re finished with,
-you will need it instantly.
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-The First Discovery of Christmas Morning: Batteries not included.
-%
-Corcoroni’s Third Law of Bus Transportation: All buses heading in the opposite
-direction drive off the face of
-the earth and never return.
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-Durrell’s Parameter: The faster the plane, the narrower the seats.
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-Ettorre’s Observation: The other line moves faster.
-Corollary: Don’t try to change lines. The other line — the one you were in
-originally — will then move faster.
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-Ehrman’s Commentary: Things will get worse before they will get better. Who
-said things would get better?
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-Ducharme’s Precept: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
-%
-Dijkstra’s Prescription for Programming Inertia: If you don’t know what your
-program is supposed to do, you’d better
-not start writing it.
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-Commoner’s First Law of Ecology: No action is without side—effects.
-%
-Cohn’s Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the
-less time you have to do anything.
-Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting
-on the nothing you are doing.
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-Law of Permanence: Political power is as permanent as today’s newspaper.
-Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any
-state was today.
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-Clarke’s Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
-from magic.
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-Cheops’s Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
-%
-Hacker’s Law: The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a
-nation or an
-organization to action is one of mankind’s oldest illusions.
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-Harris’s Lament: All the good ones are taken.
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-Issawi’s Law of the Conservation of Evil: The total amount of evil in any
-system remains constant.
-Hence, any diminution in one direction — for instance, a reduction in poverty
-or unemployment —
-is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.
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-Kelley’s Law: Last guys don’t finish nice.
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-Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is
-absolutely true except for that
-rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.
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-Kohn’s Second Law: Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory
-tries to repeat it.
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-Lowrey’s Law of Expertise: Just when you get really good at something, you
-don’t need to do it any more.
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-Lynch’s Law: When the going gets tough, everybody leaves.
-%
-Martin’s Law of Communication: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged
-communication between
-different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.
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-Cahn’s Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.
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-Horngren’s Observation: The real world is a special case.
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-Merkin’s Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.
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-Comins’ Law: People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them
-Benjamin Franklin said it first.
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-Rosenfield’s Regret: The most delicate component will be dropped.
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-Cunningham’s Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not
-to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.
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-Connected. Take this REPL, brother, and may it serve you well.
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-First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.
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-Leahy’s Law: If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.
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-Luce’s Law: No good deed goes unpunished.
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-Putt’s Corollary: Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence
-inversion.
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-Reed’s Law: The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, scales
-exponentially with the size of the network.
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-We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
-premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up
-our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be
-lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look
-carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been
-identified. — Donald Knuth, Structured Programming with Go To Statements
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-The Pareto Principle: Most things in life are not distributed evenly.
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-The KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid.
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-Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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-Are we consing yet?
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-The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
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-“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
-— Mark Twain
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-Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns.
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-Historian’s Rule: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear
-inevitable by a competent historian.
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-Gretzky’s Truism: You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
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-Gresham’s Law: Bad money drives out good.
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-Glasow’s Comment: There’s something wrong if you’re always right.
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-Franklin’s Rule: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be
-disappointed.
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-Fetridge’s Law: Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen,
-especially when people are looking.
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-Farkus’ Law: There will always be a closer parking space than the one you
-found. Goodman’s Corollary: But if
-you go looking for it, someone else will already have taken it.
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-Hagenbach and Nuremberg’s Poor Defense: “I was only following orders, sir. An
-order is an order.”
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-McIntyre’s First Law: Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you
-could be wrong.
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-Those who don’t understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-— Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael
-Fitzgerald
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-Hoare’s Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem
-struggling to get out.
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-Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has
-been discontinued.
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-Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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-Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
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-It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
-What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts,
-devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self—critical? — Alan
-Perlis
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-Non—Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative
-results.
-Positive expectations yield negative results.
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-Gerrold’s Laws of Infernal Dynamics: (1) An object in motion will always be
-headed in the wrong direction.
-(2) An object at rest will always be in the wrong place.
-(3) The energy required to change either one of these states will always be
-more than you wish to expend,
-but never so much as to make the task totally impossible.
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-Kinkler’s First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority.
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-Kinkler’s Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved.
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-There are no games on this system.
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-Committee Rules: (1) Never arrive on time, or you will be stamped a beginner.
-(2) Don’t say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being
-wise.
-(3) Be as vague as possible; this prevents irritating the others.
-(4) When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed.
-(5) Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular — it’s
-what everyone is waiting for.
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-Ogden’s Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
-%
-“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
-— Herbert Hoover
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-Chesterton’s Fence: Reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the
-existing state of affairs is understood.
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-I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the
-battle to the strong, neither yet bread to
-the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of
-skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes
-%
-Schmidt’s Law: If you mess with a thing long enough, it’ll break. Wyszkowski’s
-Second Law: Anything can be made to work
-if you fiddle with it long enough.
-%
-Hoover’s Affirmation: Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national
-debt.
-%
-Sueker’s Note: If you need “n” items of anything, you will have “n-1” in
-stock.
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-Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. —
-Margaret Mead
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-DRY: Don’t repeat yourself. WET: Write everything twice.
-%
-Isaiah’s Observation: And judgment is turned away backward, and justice
-standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street,
-and equity cannot enter.
-%
-The best things in life are for a fee.
-%
-“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:
-freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the
-wisdom never to use either.” — Mark Twain
-%
-The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee: The greatest single aid to distance is for
-the disc to be going in a
-direction you did not want. (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long way.) — Dan
-Roddick
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-Of course you have a purpose — to find a purpose.
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-Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself — and then a couple
-of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman
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-Connected. Hacks and glory await!
-%
-Connected. May the source be with you!
-%
-Survivorship Bias: Concentrating on the people or things that “survived” some
-process and inadvertently
-overlooking those that didn’t because of their lack of visibility.
-%
-Curse of Knowledge: When better informed people find it extremely difficult
-to think about problems from
-the perspective of lesser informed people.
-%
-“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” —
-Vladimir Lenin
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-Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make
-a person educated,
-any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.
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-What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
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-Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publius Syrus
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-Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically.
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-Power corrupts. And big power corrupts bigly.
-%
-Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character,
-give him power. — Abraham Lincoln
-%
-Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature.
-%
-If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
-%
-When in doubt, use brute force. — Ken Thompson
-%
-Grelb’s Reminder: Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
-average drivers.
-%
-Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, along comes a faster rat!
-%
-The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more
-important to do.
-%
-To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. — Robert Heller
-%
-Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions
-seldom black or white.
-Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the
-other side to be totally the winner.
-The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side
-has all the facts.
-Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from
-political motivation.
-Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth. —
-Stephen R. Schwambach
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-One reason why George Washington Is held in such veneration: He never blamed
-his problems
-on the former Administration. — George O. Ludcke
-%
-If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a
-sound?
-If you didn’t get caught, did you really do it?
-%
-Rhode’s Law: When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening,
-circumstance, or result can in no way be directly,
-indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred,
-induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically
-guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political
-advantage, material gain, or personal comfort,
-or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and
-unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered
-to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely
-so, until such time as it
-becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe.
-%
-The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
-appreciates how difficult it was.
-%
-Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It’s the “Un—Operating System”:
-unreliable,
-unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more
-frustrating
-than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. — The Unix
-Haters Handbook
-%
-All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism.
-%
-Murphy’s Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in
-which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way,
-unprepared for, will promptly develop.
-%
-Miksch’s Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end.
-%
-Irrationality is the square root of all evil. — Douglas Hofstadter
-%
-Jone’s Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to
-blame it on.
-%
-Parkinson’s Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to
-increase regardless
-of the amount of work to be done.
-%
-Wicker’s Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
-%
-Mr. Cole’s Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the
-population is growing.
-%
-Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
-%
-“If you give someone your name, they can take your soul. If you give them
-your birthday,
-they can control your life.” — Yuuko Ichihara
-%
-King Solomon’s Lament: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall
-there be any
-remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
-%
-Friendship: A ship big enough to carry
-two in fair weather, but only one in foul. — The Devil’s Dictionary
-%
-“You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell
-lies?”
-— Buster the Myth Maker
-%
-“We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm
-depend on us.
-Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we
-drink the milk and eat those apples.”
-— George Orwell’s Animal Farm
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-Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No, unhappy the land that
-needs heroes.
-— Bertolt Brecht, “Life of Galileo”
-%
-User: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. — The New Hacker’s
-Dictionary
-%
-Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. — Dijkstra
-%
-Gumperson’s Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely
-proportional to its desirability.
-%
-It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall
-%
-Logic doesn’t apply to the real world. — Marvin Minsky
-%
-Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. — French Proverb
-%
-It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
-%
-Leibowitz’s Rule: When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you
-hold the hammer with both hands.
-%
-When the government’s remedies don’t match your problem, you
-modify the problem, not the remedy.
-%
-Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. —
-Irene Peter
-%
-Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a
-cliche is a
-sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to
-say, “The black
-cat is always the last one off the fence.” I have no idea what she meant, but
-at one time,
-it was undoubtedly true. — Solomon Short
-%
-When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m
-beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow
-%
-Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of
-facts is no more a science than a heap
-of stones is a house. — Henri Poincaré
-%
-Insanity is the final defense.
-%
-Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering: Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If
-everything did, you’d be out of a job.
-%
-Swipple’s Rule of Order: Whoever shouts the loudest has the floor.
-%
-There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell in A
-Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of
-Political Struggles
-%
-For the love of life, there’s a trade–off; We could loose it all, but we’ll
-go down fighting. — David Sylvian and Koji Haijima, For The Love of Life
-%
-The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
-from. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
-%
-Real users never know what they want, but they always know when your program
-doesn’t deliver it.
-%
-Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we
-deserve. — George Bernard Shaw
-%
-A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to
-protect them from each other
-or something like that.
-%
-Fudd’s First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall
-over.
-%
-The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the
-one who is doing it.
-%
-Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be
-answered by the word no.
-%
-What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely
-different things. — Margaret Mead
-%
-Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth
-debating.
-%
-The Sagan Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
-%
-Wirth’s Law: Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster.
-%
-Let justice prevail even though the heavens may fall.
-%
-Zawinski’s Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.
-Corollary: Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can.
-%
-Gates’s Law: The speed of software halves every 18 months.
-%
-Lubarsky’s Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug.
-%
-With great privilege comes great responsibility.
-%
-Kernighan’s Law: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a
-program
-in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how
-will you ever debug it?
-%
-Wiio’s First Law of Communication: Communication usually fails, except by
-accident. Corollary: (1)
-If communication can fail, it will. (2) If communication cannot fail, it still
-most usually fails.
-(3) If communication seems to succeed in the intended way, there’s a
-misunderstanding.
-(4) If you are content with your message, communication certainly fails.
-%
-Wiio’s Second Law of Communication: If a message can be interpreted in several
-ways, it will be
-interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage.
-%
-Wiio’s Third Law of Communication: There is always someone who knows better
-than you what you meant with your message.
-%
-Wiio’s Fourth Law of Communication: The more we communicate, the worse
-communication succeeds. Corollary:
-The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate.
-%
-Wiio’s Fifth Law of Communication: In mass communication, the important thing
-is not how things are but how they seem to be.
-%
-Wiio’s Sixth Law of Communication: The importance of a news item is inversely
-proportional to the square of the distance.
-%
-Wiio’s Seventh Law of Communication: The more important the situation is, the
-more probable you had forgotten an essential
-thing that you remembered a moment ago.
-%
-“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we
-don’t like.” — Dave Ramsey
-%
-Just living in the database.
-%
-To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights
-or asking you to surrender these rights.
-Therefore, you have certain responsibilities — responsibilities to respect
-the freedom of others.
-%
-We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local system
-administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
-(1) Respect the privacy of others.
-(2) Think before you type.
-(3) With great power comes great responsibility.
-%
-Frequency Illusion (Baader—Meinhof Phenomenon): The illusion where something
-that has recently come to one’s
-attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards.
-%
-The Backdraft Phenomenon: A rapid or explosive burning of superheated gasses in
-a fire, caused when oxygen rapidly
-enters an oxygen—depleted environment.
-%
-March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
-%
-Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would
-behave very differently from those who now hold it — when, in truth, in
-order to get power we would have to become very much like them.
-%
-Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say,
-are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
-For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. — Dennis Ritchie
-%
-Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. — Russian Sailor’s Proverb
-%
-Do you guys know what you’re doing, or are you just hacking?
-%
-Jacquin’s Postulate on Democratic Government: No man’s life, liberty, or
-property are safe while the
-legislature is in session.
-%
-I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for
-nothing. I gave them nothing for something. — The Yellow Kid
-%
-Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing. — James Thurber
-%
-A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest
-man a century.
-%
-Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.
-%
-Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.
-%
-One man’s simple is another man’s complex.
-%
-Every so often the stars align.
-%
-Nobody wants a backup, everybody wants a restore.
-%
-Kingmaker Scenario: A player who is unable to win with the ability
-to influence who will win.
-%
-Programmers do it bit by bit.
-%
-Brontosaurus Principle: Organizations can grow faster than their brains can
-manage them
-in relation to their environment and to their own physiology:  when this
-occurs, they are
-an endangered species. — Thomas K. Connellan
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-Today will be remembered until tomorrow.
-%
-It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your processes are?
-%
-It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your backups are?
-%
-It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where the source code is?
-%
-This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had there been an
-actual emergency, then you would no longer be here.
-%
-To teach is to learn twice. — Joseph Joubert
-%
-Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
-%
-The so—called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations
-of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner
-%
-(1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.
-%
-Ryan’s Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish
-yourself as an expert.
-%
-Fast, cheap, good: pick one.
-%
-My guidingstar always is, “Get hold of portable property”. — Charles
-Dickens in “Great Expectations”
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-If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn’t a horse.
-%
-C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie
-%
-Use only as directed.
-%
-If the meanings of “true” and “false” were switched, then this sentence
-would not be false.
-%
-Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. — George Orwell’s
-1984
-%
-A truth that’s told with bad intent
-beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake
-%
-You don’t have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer.
-%
-It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire. — Quintus Horatius
-Flaccus (Horace)
-%
-Tell the truth and run. — Yugoslav Proverb
-%
-It’s not easy, being green. — Kermit The Frog
-%
-Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us
-with politics’,
-respond those who don’t want to learn.
-— Richard Stallman
-%
-A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on,
-and are punished.
-— Proverbs
-%
-Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born
-to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz, “Social
-Studies”
-%
-In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, isn’t it
-the other way around?
-%
-“Alas Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men
-never learn anything from history.” — George Bernard Shaw
-%
-You are the only person to ever get this message.
-%
-Steele’s Law: There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than ten men
-or fewer than one hundred.
-%
-For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.
-— H. L. Mencken
-%
-Rights, Responsibility, Opportunity, and Privilege.
-%
-Measure twice, cut once.
-%
-No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would.
-%
-Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
-— Rich Kulawiec
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-Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-%
-Jack of all trades, master of some.
-%
-In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
-— Pliny the Elder
-%
-“There is no such thing as good writing,
-only good rewriting.” — Robert Graves
-%
-Preudhomme’s Law of Window Cleaning: It’s on the other side.
-%
-If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we’ve solved it. —
-Arthur Kasspe
-%
-Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
-%
-If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls
-out a sword I’d like to see you get up there with your pen.
-%
-He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.
-— Benjamin Franklin
-%
-Mix’s Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building and a
-temporary tax.
-%
-Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once.
-— Karl Lehenbauer
-%
-Don’t kid yourself.  Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever.
-%
-Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
-where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev
-%
-It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you
-did it wrong. — H. W. Longfellow
-%
-Your code should be more efficient!
-%
-“One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that
-correlation
-is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.” — Thomas
-Sowell in
-The Vision of the Anointed
-%
-“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who
-produce,
-subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
-— Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed
-%
-“People make money for themselves, not for their country.”
-— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires
-%
-“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at
-length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious,
-but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats.”
-— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires
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-Inner—Platform Effect: The tendency of software architects to create a system
-so customizable
-as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development
-platform they are using.
-%
-“It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
-— Thomas Sowell
-%
-“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help
-yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
-— Thomas Sowell
-%
-“Intellect is not wisdom.”
-— Thomas Sowell in Intellectuals and Society
-%
-“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like
-discrimination.”
-— Thomas Sowell
-%
-“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were
-considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.”
-— Thomas Sowell
-%
-The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
-%
-Hoffer’s Discovery: The grand act of a dying institution is to issue a newly
-revised, enlarged edition of the policies and procedures manual.
-%
-You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
-— Norman Douglas
-%
-“Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” — Carl Sagan
-%
-He who is content with his lot probably has a lot.
-%
-“It takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village
-idiot to believe that.
-It is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for
-which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.”
-— Thomas Sowell
-%
-The best is the enemy of the good.
-%
-“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face
-— forever.”
-— George Orwell’s 1984
-%
-The stars are bright. But give no light. The world spins backwards every day.
-— The Singing Sea
-%
-“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for
-being ‘simplistic’ should
-realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is
-evading the truth.”
-— Thomas Sowell in Barbarians Inside The Gates and Other Controversial Essays
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-We aren’t in your region yet.
-%
-“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” —
-Linus Torvalds
-%
-Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish.
-%
-Astroturfing: The deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or
-public
-relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the
-public — fake
-grass roots support.
-%
-The right creature in the right place.
-%
-Weinberg’s Law: If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote
-programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
-%
-Feed a dog for three days and he will remember your kindness for three years;
-feed a cat for three years and she will
-forget your kindness in three days.
-%
-If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. — Proverbs
-%
-Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. — Yogi Berra
-%
-Force has no place where there is need of skill. — Herodotus
-%
-Drew’s Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield
-lands directly in front of your eyes.
-%
-If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.
-%
-In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.  In practice,
-there is.
-%
-The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be
-correct. — William of Occam
-%
-The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the
-stupidity of your action.
-%
-Hell is empty and all the devils are here. — Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
-%
-“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”
-— Will Rogers
-%
-Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once.
-%
-We must believe in free will. We have no choice. — Isaac B. Singer
-%
-Flon’s Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in
-which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
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-Katz’ Law: Men and nations will act rationally when
-all other possibilities have been exhausted.
-%
-History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
-exhausted all other alternatives. — Abba Eban
-%
-Just fight it out.
-%
-Murphy’s Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because
-fools are so ingenious.
-%
-Corporate Republic: A theoretical form of government run primarily like a
-business, involving a board of directors and executives, in which all aspects
-of society are privatized by a single, or small groups of companies.
-%
-Measure once, cut thrice.
-%
-Oppression: The malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power,
-often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium.
-%
-No man is an island entire of itself; every man
-is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. — John Donne
-%
-Deception: An act or statement which misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief,
-concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage.
-Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as
-distraction, camouflage, or concealment.
-%
-Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
-%
-The right tool for the right job.
-%
-Failed to suspend system via logind: There’s already a shutdown or
-sleep operation in progress.
-%
-Whistler’s Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.
-%
-You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable
-proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
-%
-I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting:
-a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
-— Dwight D. Eisenhower
-%
-Appearances often are deceiving. — Aesop
-%
-Prices subject to change without notice.
-%
-No man is an island if he’s on at least one mailing list.
-%
-Talent does what it can.
-Genius does what it must.
-You do what you get paid to do.
-%
-Finagle’s Fifth Rule: Experiments should be
-reproducible — they should all fail in the same
-way.
-%
-When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, “The handle is one of us!”
-— Turkish Proverb
-%
-We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s out.
-%
-Why can’t you be a non-conformist like everyone else?
-%
-Subject to change without notice.
-%
-People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
-%
-Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
-%
-Van Roy’s Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control.
-%
-Competition Law: A law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition
-by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.
-%
-Don’t believe everything you see or hear on the news.
-%
-Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
-%
-The Fediverse: An ensemble of federated servers that are used for web publishing
-and file hosting, which while independently hosted, can intercommunicate with each other.
-%
-There is enough treachery, hatred, violence, absurdity in the average
-human being to supply any given army on any given day. — The Genius of the Crowd
-%
-Don’t be evil.
-%
-The personal becomes the political.
-%
-It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Quintus Horatius
-Flaccus (Horace)
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-Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
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-History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.
-— Napoleon Bonaparte, “Maxims”
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-A closed mouth gathers no feet.
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-The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan
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-Shick’s Law: There is no problem a good miracle can’t solve.
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-A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
-— Alan Perlis
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-Kington’s Law of Perforation: If a straight line of holes is made in a piece
-of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest
-part of the paper.
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-Lisp users: Due to the holiday next Monday, there will be no garbage collection.
-%
-Anything cut to length will be too short.
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-Arnold’s Laws of Documentation:
-(1) If it should exist, it doesn’t.
-(2) If it does exist, it’s out of date.
-(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
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-If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.
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-This land is mine, God gave this land to me. — The Exodus Song
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-Here’s a dirty little secret: Very few people know what they’re doing.
-%
-Never trust a computer you can’t repair yourself.
-%
-Fresco’s Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you’d probably be bored.
-Corollary: Just because you’re bored doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing.
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-Maryann’s Law: You can always find what you’re not looking for.
-%
-Langer’s Law: If the line moves quickly, you’re in the wrong line.
-%
-Beryl’s Second Law: It’s always easy to see both sides of an issue
-you are not particularly concerned about.
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-Herman’s Law: A good scapegoat is almost as good as a solution.
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-Irene’s Law: There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
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-The world wants to be deceived. — Sebastian Brant
-%
-No matter what anyone tells you, isometric exercises cannot be done
-quietly at your desk at work. People will suspect manic tendencies as
-you twitter around in your chair.
-%
-How many comments on the Internet do you surmise are fake?
-%
-People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
-— Otto Von Bismarck
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-If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. — Chinese Proverb
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-If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire
-deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading
-are precisely those that challenge our convictions. — Unknown
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-Linux sucks.
-%
-Will I be accused of being an elitist if I use Arch Linux?
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-We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
-%
-Occam’s Eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest
-solution is bound to have something wrong with it.
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-Membership dues are not refundable.
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-If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak. — Phil Wayne
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-Your mileage may vary.
-%
-Laura’s Law: No child throws up in the bathroom.
-%
-Another day, another dollar.
-%
-Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance.
-%
-When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out we do and they don’t.
-%
-“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
-— George Orwell’s Animal Farm
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-“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the age of intellect is
-the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve
-the problems of the world ... In a wider national sphere, the survival
-of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of
-the citizens.”
-— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
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-Murphy’s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have
-obviously overlooked something.
-%
-Rules for thee, but not for me.
-%
-Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair — It gives you something to do,
-but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
-%
-Some people are backed by cosmic luck.
-%
-You can’t handle the truth.
-%
-Gyre: A spiral or vortex.
-%
-The decentralized web is coming.
-%
-The children of the magenta line.
-%
-I’ve got no strings. — Pinocchio
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-The systemd-journald sucks.
-%
-Fame and fortune.
-%
-Every man has his price.
-%
-A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
-— Thomas Jefferson
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-Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. — Proverbs
-%
-The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental
-performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and
-analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within
-the sphere of his real interests. He becomes a primitive again.
-His thinking becomes associative and affective.
-— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
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-“This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice
-or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;
-but do not let us shut our eyes to it.”
-— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
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-“The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and
-exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for
-them have always told them that they were, without necessarily
-meaning by it anything precise.”
-— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
-%
-The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.
-— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
-%
-Advice from an old carpenter: Use the right tool for the right job.
-%
-Hypocrisy: A pretense of having a virtuous, moral, or religious character.
-%
-The mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of
-reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending
-to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
-%
-A mob kills the wrong man was flashed in a newspaper headline lately.
-%
-Most people have two reasons for doing anything — a good reason, and
-the real reason.
-%
-Formatted to fit your screen.
-%
-Magary’s Principle:
-When there is a public outcry to cut deadwood and fat from any
-government bureaucracy, it is the deadwood and the fat that do
-the cutting, and the public’s services are cut.
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-Priming: The phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus influences
-a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance
-or intention.
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-Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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-YAML sucks.
-%
-Kubernetes sucks.
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-Sacred cow: An idea, custom, person, or institution unreasonably
-held to be immune to criticism.
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-Everybody wants to be a cat.
-%
-Today is what happened to yesterday.
-%
-The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable.
-%
-You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
-— Larry Wall
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-As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?
-%
-“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors,
-it always wants more tomorrow.”
-— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
-%
-“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.”
-— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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-Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always.
-— Albert Schweitzer
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-My computer can beat up your computer. — Karl Lehenbauer
-%
-Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back to life.
-%
-If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real
-good, you will get out of it.
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-What orators lack in depth they make up in length.
-%
-You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
-lead down. — Stanislaw Lem in “The Cyberiad”
-%
-The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible
-enough to give none.
-%
-Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one.
-— A.J. Liebling
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-What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-— Wittgenstein
-%
-The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones.
-— Nathaniel Howe
-%
-“Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the
-very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could
-understand such a conversation as we are having now?”
-— George Orwell’s 1984
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-“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users
-control the programme or the programme controls the users. If
-the programme controls the users, and the developer controls
-the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.”
-— Richard Stallman
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-Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
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-You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
-%
-Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past.
-%
-Linux is obsolete. — Andrew Tanenbaum
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-Every man thinks God is on his side. — Jean Anouilh, “The Lark”
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-Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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-Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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-Divide first, then conquer.
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-The game is rigged.
-%
-This service is no longer available.
-%
-Gamification: The application of game-design elements and
-game principles in non-game contexts.
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-You made this? I made this.
-%
-“Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read;
-he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.”
-— Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock
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-How users read on the web: They don’t. — Jakob Nielsen
-%
-Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches
-certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as
-an eagle toward heaven. — Proverbs
-%
-Maybe GitHub was down?
-%
-Babylon was taken in one night.
-%
-Move fast and fix things.
-%
-Sharp like an edge of a samurai sword.
-The mental blade cuts through flesh and bone.
-Though my mind’s at peace, the world’s out of order.
-Missing the inner heat, life gets colder.
-— Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02
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-A freelancer.
-A battle cry of a hawk make a dove fly and a tear dry.
-Wonder why a lone wolf don’t run with a clan.
-Only trust your instincts and be one with the plan.
-— Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02
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-The ultimate reward is honor, not awards.
-At odds with the times in wars with no lords.
-— Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02
-%
-“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
-To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-— Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller
-%
-“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be
-judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago,
-a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.”
-— Thomas Sowell, born in the 1930’s
-%
-The web is not just Firefox or Chrome.
-%
-The algorithm is your boss.
-%
-Who needs documentation anyway?
-%
-“Sooner or later, everything old is new again.”
-― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid
-%
-Public Service Announcement: The production of great leaders has
-been discontinued.
-%
-Three questions that would destroy most arguments: Compared to what?
-At what cost? What hard evidence do you have? — Thomas Sowell
-%
-“Less than fifty years after the amazing scientific discoveries under Mamun,
-the Arab Empire collapsed. Wonderful and beneficent as was the
-progress of science, it did not save the empire from chaos.”
-― John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
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-“Another remarkable and unexpected symptom of national decline is the
-intensification of internal political hatreds. One
-would have expected that, when the survival
-of the nation became precarious, political
-factions would drop their rivalry and stand
-shoulder-to-shoulder to save their country.”
-― John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
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-“In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with
-preconceptions, but not when they don’t.”
-― Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed
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-“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
-― Arnold Toynbee
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-“Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat,
-but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a
-nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat,
-then that marks the end of a nation.”
-― Ibn Khaldun in The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, 1377
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-You are not authorized to repair this device.
-%
-Minority rule. Majority rule.
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-Up and down go the arguers getting nowhere fast.
-%
-Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles.
-%
-What’s old is new again.
-%
-Cease and desist.
-%
-The network effect.
-%
-“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but
-around us in awareness.” ― James Thurber
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-We are experiencing system trouble ― do not adjust your terminals.
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-We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible.
-We’ve done so much, for so long, with so little,
-that we are now qualified to do something with nothing. ― Unknown
-%
-Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next
-week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to
-explain why it didn’t happen. ― Winston Churchill
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-Knocked, you weren’t in. ― Opportunity
-%
-Information asymmetry.
-%
-Gilb’s First Law of Unreliability:
-Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more
-unreliable. Corollary: At the source of every error which is
-blamed on the computer you will find at least two
-human errors, including the error of blaming it on
-the computer.
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-Gilb’s Second Law of Unreliability:
-Any system which depends on human reliability is
-unreliable.
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-Gilb’s Third Law of Unreliability:
-Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in
-contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
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-Gilb’s Fourth Law of Unreliability:
-Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the
-probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting
-some useful work done.
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-You get what you pay for.
-%
-Make a wish, it just might come true.
-%
-It is easier to change the specification to fit the program
-than vice versa.
-%
-Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have
-been, and never will be wrong. ― Walter Dwight
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-Too clever is dumb. Too dumb is clever.
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-Made with real ingredients.
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-All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
-%
-Just because a message may never be received does not mean it is
-not worth sending.
-%
-A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the
-power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly,
-“You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding
-of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The
-machine worked.
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-One size fits all, doesn’t fit anyone.
-%
-Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark. ― Shakespeare
-%
-All generalizations are false, including this one.
-― Unknown
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-No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-%
-Shut off the engine before fueling.
-%
-There’s an old proverb that says just about what ever you want it to.
-%
-There’s a quote that says just about what ever you want it to.
-%
-Perhaps one possible reason that things aren’t going according to plan
-is that there never was a plan in the first place.
-%
-Rules, Regulations, and Requirements.
-%
-Bots. Bots everywhere.
-%
-Remember, Grasshopper, falling down 1000 stairs begins by tripping over
-the first one. ― Confusion
-%
-Money makes the world go round. Nothing more, nothing less.
-%
-If complexity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
-%
-The Four Olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas
-%
-What is the opposite of clickbait?
-%
-Might makes right: History is written by the victors.
-%
-You cannot stop link rot.
-%
-When in trouble or in doubt,
-run in circles, scream and shout.
-%
-The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
-%
-“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and
-to have control over nothing.”
-― Herodotus, The Histories
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-Click Farm: A place where a large group of workers are hired
-to click on paid advertising links.
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-There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the
-other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is
-wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting
-the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the
-knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no
-choice or values exist. ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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-If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
-%
-The best lack all conviction, while the worst
-are full of passionate intensity.
-― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
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-NixOS sucks.
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-Software is utterly broken.
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-To continue reading, subscribe today.
-%
-The man who does not read code has no advantage
-over the man who cannot read code.
-%
-Fortune favors the fortunate.
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-It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know
-nothing about the problem.
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-The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what
-you want. ― D. Cohen
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-War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
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-Every so often the algorithm consults /dev/random for advice.
-%
-Everyone thinks they are reasonable.
-%
-It’s only a matter of time.
-%
-The well has been poisoned.
-%
-Zero trust.
-%
-Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine,
-Lisp Machine is Fun.
-Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine,
-Fun for everyone.
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-Don’t panic.
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-We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have
-never deceived us. ― Samuel Johnson
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-Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or
-we know where we can find information upon it.
-― Samuel Johnson
-%
-Join in on the new game that’s sweeping the country.
-It’s called “Bureaucracy”. Everybody stands in a circle.
-The first person to do anything loses. Start!
-%
-An optimist believes we live in the best world possible;
-a pessimist fears that this is true.
-%
-As of next week, passwords will be entered in morse code.
-%
-If life is merely a game, the question still remains: for whose amusement?
-%
-Just read the instructions.
-%
-Like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon.
-%
-All systems operational.
-%
-Justice standeth afar off.
-%
-Speak your mind at your own peril.
-%
-My hammer is better than your hammer.
-%
-The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
-whether submarines can swim. ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
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-Weiner’s Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.
-%
-Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example.
-%
-Meader’s Law: What ever happens to you, it will previously
-have happened to everyone you know, only more so.
-%
-Most seminars have a happy ending. Everyone’s glad when they’re over.
-%
-He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
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-Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is
-when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation.
-%
-Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-%
-Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a
-law against it by that time.
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-Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
-%
-Put all eggs in one basket. Make sure to count them before they hatch.
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-“Please, sir, I want some more.” ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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-The wise man’s eyes are in his head.
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-Bread and circuses.
-%
-The forty―eight laws of weakness.
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-Silent majorities, loud minorities.
-%
-The poor is hated even of his own neighbour:
-but the rich hath many friends.
-― Proverbs
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-Beware of those who talk a good metagame.
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-Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
-%
-Even if you can deceive people about a product
-through misleading statements,
-sooner or later the product will speak for itself.
-― Hajime Karatsu
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-Normal times may possibly be over forever.
-%
-Many people are desperately looking for some wise advice which will
-recommend that they do what they want to do.
-%
-Did it ever occur to you that fat chance and slim chance
-mean the same thing? Or that we drive on parkways and park
-on driveways?
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-To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole
-special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role
-of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
-― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation
-as a Basis for Social Policy
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-Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could
-be impossible?
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-Those who don’t know, talk. Those who don’t talk, know.
-%
-No one lives forever.
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-Dark Pattern: An interface that has been carefully crafted to
-mislead a user.
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-When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,”
-it’s the money. ― Kim Hubbard
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-Major premise: Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man.
-Minor premise: A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds.
-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
-― The Devil’s Dictionary
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-Does freedom of speech actually exist?
-%
-Let’s count the beans.
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-The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
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-Clickbait works every time.
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-You can be replaced by this computer, maybe.
-%
-People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they
-did yesterday.
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-Everything might be different in the present if only one thing had
-been different in the past.
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-Fiefdoms still exist.
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-Where there is a personality, there is a cult.
-%
-Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
-Nothing beside remains. ― Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias
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-Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn’t end.
-%
-Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
-way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
-complaining. ― Jeff Raskin
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-Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two,
-opulence is when you have three ― and paradise is when you have none.
-― Doug Larson
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-It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man’s life.
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-Fact or Opinion.
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-Even the earth itself cannot contain all the evil.
-%
-Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing.
-%
-“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
-― Harry Emerson Fosdick
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-People who claim they don’t let little things bother them have never
-slept in a room with a single mosquito.
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-Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom
-delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
-— Ecclesiastes
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-If you’re happy, you’re successful.
-%
-The Internet is the greatest game of telephone in existence.
-%
-Crush the competition.
-%
-Buy the competition.
-%
-Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of
-us who do.
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-It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than
-people fit to govern others. — Lord Acton
-%
-“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances
-allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.”
-— Lord Acton
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-“Official truth is not actual truth.” — Lord Acton
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-Welcome to dependency hell.
-%
-Talk is truly cheap.
-%
-This website is too bloated.
-%
-After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
-— Italian Proverb
-%
-Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
-— Minna Antrim, “Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions”
-%
-It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
-%
-The kind of danger people most enjoy is the kind they can watch from
-a safe place.
-%
-The truth eventually comes out.
-%
-Newer isn’t always better.
-%
-He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
-%
-Sometimes you don’t get what you pay for.
-%
-Always sort by controversial.
-%
-Once they go up, who cares where they come down?
-That’s not my department.
-%
-And what might your name be? “Alexander.” So, you can talk?
-“Y-Yes, sir.” Take him back! He can still talk!
-— Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island
-%
-Flattery will get you everywhere.
-%
-According to the latest official figures, 43% of all
-statistics are totally worthless.
-%
-Unix Express: All passengers bring a piece of the aeroplane and a
-box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on
-the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane
-they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually,
-the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft,
-but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually
-reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
-%
-The network effect is powerful.
-%
-The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay.
-%
-Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics,
-because the stakes are so low. — Wallace Sayre
-%
-Stolen waters are sweet.
-%
-“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable
-one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
-all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
-— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
-%
-As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
-I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the market-place.
-— Rudyard Kipling, The Gods of the Copybook Headings
-%
-Maybe users like spam?
-%
-Appeal to Novelty: It’s current year, you’re wrong.
-%
-A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which
-leaveth no food. — Proverbs
-%
-Talking past each other: A situation where two or more people talk
-about different subjects, while believing that they are talking
-about the same thing.
-%
-Not all problems need technological solutions.
-%
-Many times a technical solution merely replaces old problems with
-new ones.
-%
-The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that
-aren’t there. — Gordon Bell
-%
-Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-— Brian Kernighan
-%
-UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things,
-as that would also stop them from doing clever things. — Doug Gwyn
-%
-Life is too short to run proprietary software. — Bdale Garbee
-%
-The central enemy of reliability is complexity. — Geer
-%
-Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed
-application, makes the following eight assumptions.
-All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big
-trouble and painful learning experiences.
-(1) The network is reliable.
-(2) Latency is zero.
-(3) Bandwidth is infinite.
-(4) The network is secure.
-(5) Topology doesn’t change.
-(6) There is one administrator.
-(7) Transport cost is zero.
-(8) The network is homogeneous.
-— Peter Deutsch
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-Most software today is very much like an Egyptian
-pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other,
-with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force
-and thousands of slaves. — Alan Kay
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-Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers,
-it makes products difficult to plan, build and test,
-it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user
-and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie
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-Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as
-sophistication, which is baffling—the incomprehensible should
-cause suspicion rather than admiration. Possibly this trend
-results from a mistaken belief that using a somewhat
-mysterious device confers an aura of power on the user.
-— Niklaus Wirth
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-My definition of an expert in any field is a person who
-knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
-— P. J. Plauger
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-The best code is no code at all.
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-The most amazing achievement of the computer software
-industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady
-and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.
-— Henry Petroski
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-Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold
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-Join in on the new game that’s sweeping the world.
-It’s called “Corruption”. Every Government stands in a circle.
-The first one to improve the state of the country loses. Begin!
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-Are most politicians liars?
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-Flights of fancy.
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-Shill: A plant or a stooge who publicly helps or gives
-credibility to a person or organization without disclosing
-that they have a close relationship with the person or organization.
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-It’s almost time to pay the piper.
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-Planned Obsolescence: A policy of planning or designing a product
-with an artificially limited useful life, so that it becomes obsolete.
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-The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the
-people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people
-drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
-— Gore Vidal
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-Specifications subject to change without notice.
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-Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is now allowed.
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-Three rules for sounding like an expert:
-(1) Oversimplify your explanations to the point of uselessness.
-(2) Always point out second-order effects, but never point out when they
-can be ignored.
-(3) Come up with three rules of your own.
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-When you’re down and out, lift up your voice and shout,
-“I’M DOWN AND OUT”!
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-One planet is all you get.
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-“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want
-to keep it for themselves.”
-― Aaron Swartz
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-Books are better than the Internet.
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-It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends
-on his not understanding it.
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-Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.
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-This economy is not sustainable.
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-One weird trick advertisements.
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-A clever prophet makes sure of the event first.
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-And miles to go before I sleep.
-— Robert Frost
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-Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to
-be appointed to do the work.
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-The high cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity.
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-Always wear your seat belt.
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-People actually believe what they read on social media.
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-Contestants have been briefed on some of the questions before the show.
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-Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
-— Plotinus
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-People want either less corruption or more of a chance to
-participate in it.
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-While you don’t greatly need the outside world, it’s still very
-reassuring to know that it’s still there.
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-Clovis’ Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly:
-The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated
-than by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere,
-bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.
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-Everything that can be invented has been invented.
-— Charles Duell
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-Where do you think you’re going today?
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-Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
-— B. F. Skinner
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-There’s no heavier burden than a great potential.
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-Blutarsky’s Axiom: Nothing is impossible for the man who will not
-listen to reason.
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-One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as the truth.
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-A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
-simple system that works.
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-Larkinson’s Law: All laws are basically false.
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-What fools these mortals be. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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-Time and tide wait for no man.
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-Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand.
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-One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
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-Are you making all this up as you go along?
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-One man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia.
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-Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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-Redundant topology.
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-Their business model is spam.
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-Teamwork is essential — it allows you to blame someone else.
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-“When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower
-me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.”
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-The Internet is utterly broken.
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-If Bill Gates is the devil then Linus Torvalds must be the messiah.
-— Unknown
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-Some men are discovered; others are found out.
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-Folly is set in great dignity.
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-“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times.
-Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
-— G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
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-The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering.
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-If the grass is greener on other side of fence, consider what may be
-fertilizing it.
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-Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
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-Never promise more than you can perform. — Publilius Syrus
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-New systems generate new problems.
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-Regression Analysis: Mathematical techniques for trying to
-understand why things are getting worse.
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-The Linux philosophy is “laugh in the face of danger”.
-Oops. Wrong one. “Do it yourself”. That’s it. — Linus Torvalds
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-“In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15
-minutes.” — Andy Warhol
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-A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two.
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-To refuse praise is to seek praise twice.
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-When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
-— Harry Truman
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-If you think things can’t get worse it’s probably only because you
-lack sufficient imagination.
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-The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true.
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-Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I
-have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong. — Brent Welch
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-“Justice at all costs’ is not justice.”
-— Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice
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-“Suppose you are wrong? How would you know?
-How would you test for that possibility?”
-― Thomas Sowell
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-“Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.”
-― Thomas Sowell
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-Throw away documentation and manuals,
-and users will be a hundred times happier.
-Throw away privileges and quotas,
-and users will do the right thing.
-Throw away proprietary and site licenses,
-and there won’t be any pirating.
-If these three aren’t enough,
-just stay at your home directory
-and let all processes take their course.
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-Call for pricing.
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-Monopolies of knowledge.
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-Unemployment is unused capacity.
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-Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking
-almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
-possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-― James Cabell, “The Silver Stallion”
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-Bikeshedding: The process of arguing endlessly over details of some small
-and relatively unimportant thing.
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-“Unfortunately, propaganda works.” ― Andy Rooney
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-Mac Airways:
-The cashiers, flight attendants and pilots all look the same, feel the same
-and act the same. When asked questions about the flight, they reply that you
-don’t want to know, don’t need to know and would you please return to your
-seat and watch the movie.
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-A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
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-Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales
-to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps,
-though sure, are slow and solemn. ― Thomas Francklin
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-Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who
-feel that we know everything, especially when we discover that
-everything they know and everything we know does not match.
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-We are not anticipating any emergencies.
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-When ever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure
-that they’re not using it.
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-Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
-have mediocrity thrust upon them. ― Joseph Heller’s Catch-22
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-In the whole world you know, there’s a million boys and girls.
-― Nina Simone, To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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-Plastic Love.
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-Watson’s Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the
-number and significance of any persons watching it.
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-The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class
-is unfit to govern. ― Lord Acton
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-Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is
-a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something
-goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it
-is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they’re smart, that is.
-― Cerebus The Aardvark, “On Governing”
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-To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human.
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-When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish,
-the righteous increase. ― Proverbs
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-YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all
-or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion,
-that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.
-― Google’s YouTube, Terms of Service, 2019
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-We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part
-of the Services at any time for any or no reason. ― Twitter, Terms of Service, 2020
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-WhatsApp may also terminate a user’s access to the Service, if they are
-determined to be a repeat infringer, or for any or no reason, including
-being annoying. An annoying person is anyone who is (capriciously or not)
-determined to be annoying by authorized WhatsApp employees, agents, subagents,
-superagents or superheros.
-― WhatsApp, Terms of Service, 2012
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-We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Instagram service for any
-reason, without notice at any time. ― Instagram, Terms of Service, 2013
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-Spotify may terminate the Agreements or suspend your access to the
-Spotify Service at any time. ― Spotify, Terms and Conditions, 2019
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-PeerTube: A free and open-source decentralized self-hosted federated video platform.
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-Mastodon: A free and open-source self-hosted social networking service.
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-The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people
-click ads. That sucks. ― Jeff Hammerbacher
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-We can’t both be right.
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-If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.
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-If you stick your head in the sand, one thing is for sure, you’re gonna
-get your rear kicked.
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-“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is
-shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
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-We have the best politicians money can buy.
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-Eagleson’s Law: Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more
-months, might as well have been written by someone else.
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-It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a
-sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate
-in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this,
-too, shall pass away.” ― Abraham Lincoln
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-All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not
-satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ― Ecclesiastes
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-“Preaching to the choir in an echo chamber.”
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-Every program attempts to expand until it can either read or replace mail.
-%
-Cobra Effect: When an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse.
-Offering a bounty for every dead venomous cobra incentivizes people to breed
-more cobras for the reward.
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-He who minds his own business is never unemployed.
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-Write a wise saying and your name will live on forever. ― Unknown
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-“We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false
-appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,
-by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.”
-― Arne Tiselius
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-Corollary to Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which
-is adequately explained by greed.
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-The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
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-What ever became of eternal truth?
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-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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-If it works, it’s out of date.
-%
-“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
-%
-“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and
-campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”
-― Oscar Ameringer
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-We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the
-originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has
-forgotten its source. ― Clifton Fadiman, “Any Number Can Play”
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-Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
-%
-“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten,
-every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building
-has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process
-is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
-Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
-― George Orwell, 1984
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-The same words mean different things to different people.
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-Objects are lost only because people look where they are not rather than
-where they are.
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-If you learn one useless thing every day, in a single year you’ll learn
-365 useless things.
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-Phases of a Project:
-(1) Exultation.
-(2) Disenchantment.
-(3) Confusion.
-(4) Search for the Guilty.
-(5) Punishment for the Innocent.
-(6) Distinction for the Uninvolved.
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-Banana Republic: A politically unstable country with an economy
-dependent upon a limited-resource product.
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-Throw-away Society: A society with an excessive production of short-lived
-or disposable items over durable goods that can be repaired.
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-Got a dictionary? I want to know the meaning of life.
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-Apparently any program which runs right is obsolete.
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-Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of
-those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the
-will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of
-government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
-― Frank Herbert, “Children of Dune”
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-The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it’s the greatest possession
-we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are
-contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds.
-― George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady
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-If we all work together, we can make the rich richer.
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-Always read the fine print.
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-Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without
-greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
-― Albert Camus
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-And the best at murder are those who preach against it.
-And the best at hate are those who preach love.
-And the best at war finally are those who preach peace.
-― Charles Bukowski, “The Genius Of The Crowd”
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-Conway’s Law: Any organization that designs a system will produce a design
-whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
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-If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the
-newspaper you are misinformed.
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-“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about
-and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup
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-Con man: A confidence man.
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-“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a
-period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion,
-pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no
-longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not
-convinced that anything in life is worth saving.”
-― John Bagot Glubb, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
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-A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it
-is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it
-flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other
-committees will bloom in their turn. ― C. Northcote Parkinson
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-You too can be a confidence man or woman!
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-When you’re in command, command. ― Admiral Nimitz
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-Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
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-Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself
-is served by the field. ― Ecclesiastes
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-The golden boy can do no wrong.
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-Everyone who comes in here wants three things:
-(1) They want it quick.
-(2) They want it good.
-(3) They want it cheap.
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-If you don’t do the things that are not worth doing, who will?
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-Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it.
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-Cheap labour.
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-The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for
-everything that goes wrong ― until the next person quits or is fired.
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-Journalism is dead.
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-To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread
-that man will transgress. ― Proverbs
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-Nothing lasts forever.
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-Where is my flying car?
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-This is disputed.
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-Sometimes, the best solution is to do nothing at all.
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-Don’t build your house on the sand.
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-It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly,
-since it has no ears. ― Marcus Porcius Cato
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-Propaganda is one hell of a drug.
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-The Three Wise Monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
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-As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
-For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall
-know it no more. — David
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-You must prove that you are not a robot.
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-There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right
-keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. – J. S. Bach
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-If this is a service economy, why is the service so bad?
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-There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
-riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
-But those riches perish by evil travail:
-and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. — Ecclesiastes
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-Thus, not all data is created equal.
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-Argument From Authority: A popular yet controversial type of argument in
-which the opinion of an authority on a topic is used as evidence to
-support an argument.
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-Sock Puppet: A fake online identity used for the purpose of deception.
-Deception, be it fast or slow, can involve black or grey propaganda to
-manipulate public opinion.
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-To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
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-It’s the worst of both worlds.
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-“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly
-in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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-“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
-— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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-Don’t be a shill.
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-Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
-— Ambrose Bierce
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-Heller’s Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
-Johnson’s Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere
-within the organization.
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-Become a Lord or Lady today!
-%
-“Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it
-required.” — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes
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-“History is a record of “effects” the vast majority of which nobody
-intended to produce.” — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
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-Many arguments are semantic disputes.
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-Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
-hurtling down the highway. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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-Winning Arguments: There is no evidence to support your assertion.
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-Most of what you read on the Internet is written by insane people.
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-Politician’s Logic: (1) We must do something.
-(2) This is something. (3) Therefore, we must do this.
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-Violence is golden.
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-Politics is a personal affair.
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-Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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-“The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.” — Thomas Sowell
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-There are no atheists in foxholes.
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-“Another man may look like a deathless one on high
-but there’s not a bit of grace to crown his words.
-Just like you, my fine, handsome friend. Not even
-a god could improve those lovely looks of yours
-but the mind inside is worthless.”
-— Homer, The Odyssey
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-Temporary: Permanent
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-There are exceptions that prove the rule.
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-Closed and open slavery.
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-The Fourth Branch of Government: Social Media and The Press.
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-He was a confidence man.
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-Argument from Fallacy: The formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and
-inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
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-“What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but
-only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably a part.”
-— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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-“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support
-are the same.” — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the
-Banality of Evil
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-Reality follows fiction.
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-Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating
-solutions to problems they created in the first place. — Walter E.
-Williams
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-It takes two to tango.
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-“There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an
-opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead
-of forming opinions for himself?” — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of
-Always Being Right
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-“A last trick is to become personal, insulting, and rude as soon as you
-perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you
-leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by
-remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular
-trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect.” — Arthur
-Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right
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-“When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.”
-— Jean-Paul Sartre
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-“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one
-else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
-%
-“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance
-prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an
-organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor
-property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass
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-They’re savages! Savages!
-Dirty shrieking devils!
-Now we sound the drums of war!
-— Pocahontas’ Savages
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-Simon’s Law: Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.
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-A forbidden fruit creates many jams.
-%
-Hydra of Lerna: Cut off one head and two more shall take its place.
-%
-“But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies,
-don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe
-anything.” — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
-%
-“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped
-reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at
-which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze...”
-— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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-Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
-— Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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-“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
-reform (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain
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-Monkey see, monkey do.
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-Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
-— Michel de Montaigne
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-A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer
-you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer
-unusable. — Leslie Lamport, 1987
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-Consequentialist: The end justifies the means.
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-Currently unavailable.
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-But does it scale?
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-Can two walk together, except they be agreed? — Amos
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-Dualism: Left, Right. Black, White.
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-Nature imputes duality.
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-“People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral
-superiority.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed:
-Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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-Artificial Intelligence: /dev/random
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-Cargo Cult: A millenarian belief system in which adherents perform
-rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced
-society to deliver goods.
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-Theosis: Unity with God.
-Henosis: Unity with the Monad.
-Transhumanism: Unity with the Machine.
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-“If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily
-“socially constructed” notions, then all that is left is consensus–more
-specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to
-adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.” ― Thomas Sowell,
-Intellectuals and Society
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-“Many intellectuals are so preoccupied with the notion that their
-own special knowledge exceeds the average special knowledge of
-millions of other people that they overlook the often far more
-consequential fact that their mundane knowledge is not even one–tenth
-of the total mundane knowledge of those millions.” — Thomas
-Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
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-Augustine’s 49th Law: Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
-%
-Don’t make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything.
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-(1) Don’t think.
-(2) If you do think, don’t speak.
-(3) If you think and speak, don’t write.
-(4) If you think, speak and write, don’t sign.
-(5) If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised.
-— Polish Joke
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-In politics, temporary means permanent.
-%
-In politics, the temporary becomes the permanent.
-%
-The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough
-voters to win the next election.
-%
-Farmer: “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!”
-Boy: “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.”
-— How to Sell a Dead Donkey
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-The bait and switch is the oldest trick in the book.
-%
-If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
-%
-Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, it abruptly ends.
-%
-Do the old eat the young?
-%
-No, we want a king to rule over us.
-%
-Please confirm my bias.
-%
-What if the universe is not immortal?
-%
-Consensus is the only thing that matters.
-%
-Wikipedia is not a reliable source, because it can be edited by anyone at
-any time.
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-Feudalism is alive and well.
-%
-Eristic Dialectics: The Logic of Appearance.
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-Turning and turning in the widening gyre;
-The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
-Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
-Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
-― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
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-“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
-reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” — Albert Einstein, Religion
-and Science
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-The best man for the job is often a woman.
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-The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which
-delays them.
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-The wages of sin are high but you get your money’s worth.
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-Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors. –
-Onasander, The General
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-“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one
-reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd
-is content to swallow every day.” — Voltaire
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-“Love truth, but pardon error.” ― Voltaire
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-The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the
-errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this
-chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries
-out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this
-current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously,
-proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will
-also laugh afterwards. — Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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-Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
-— Charlie Munger
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-The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the
-same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about
-those programs, based on different values. The free software movement
-campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for
-freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly
-practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we
-do not agree with open source, and do not use that term. — Richard Stallman
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-Plausible Deniability: An ability of prescience or forethought that
-exploits a chain of command and the absence of evidence to deny
-responsibility for actions committed. An adeptness to engender situations
-that provide multiple outs.
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-“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all
-his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade
-from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.” — Dante
-Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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-Common sense isn’t actually common.
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-“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than
-that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” — Adam Smith
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-Black Swan Event: An event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect,
-and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit
-of hindsight.
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-Money is the root of all money. — The Moving Finger
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-Social Media: The Perpetual Outrage Machine.
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-The time is out of joint. — Hamlet
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-Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people
-who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in
-coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, “in
-government, the scum rises to the top”. — Walter E. Williams
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-“Clickbait is dead.”
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-The road to hell is paved with asphalt.
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-When it comes to legalized bank robbing, I’m the best. — Floyd Mayweather
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-“But is it legal?” — Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories
-from the Local Food Front, Joel Salatin
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-Most open source software is free, at least at first glance.
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-The way to a man’s stomach is through his esophagus.
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-Trash the planet.
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-A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
-lawyer. — Robert Frost
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-Murphy’s Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
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-Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through
-bureaucracies.
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-Anderson’s Law: You can’t depend on anyone to be wrong all the time.
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-The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
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-You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some
-of the time, and that’s sufficient.
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-The Fame and Fortune Axiom: Competence is not a prerequisite for success.
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-Polis’ Attorney Law: Any law enacted with more than fifty words contains
-at least one loophole.
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-Pray — or you will become prey.
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-You can get so much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind
-word alone. — Irwin Corey
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-Don’t shoot the messenger.
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-Pay to pray.
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-Distributed is the new centralized.
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-And slowly, you come to realize;
-It’s all as it should be.
-You can only do so much.
-— David Sylvian and Koji Haijima,
-For The Love of Life
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-Content is not king. Context is king.
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-Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
-— Alamut, Vladimir Bartol
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-It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
-wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was
-the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of
-Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had
-everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct
-to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period
-was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
-insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative
-degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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-Omniscience: A state of possessing all knowledge.
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-“What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.”
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-Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
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-There are two kinds of pedestrians; the quick and the dead.
-— Lord Thomas Rober Dewar
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-Programming is like alchemy.
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-We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
-— Winston Churchill
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-My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-— Adlai E. Stevenson
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-Two heads are more numerous than one.
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-Time heals all non—fatal wounds.
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-Today is the first day of the rest of your week.
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-The early worm gets eaten by the bird.
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-Trust the system.
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-Prove that you are human.
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-Jump on the bandwagon!
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-Game the metrics.
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-All drugs come with side effects.
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-“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” — Óscar R. Benavides
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-In other words, we are left with Plato’s “noble natures,” with the
-few of whom it may be true that none “does evil voluntarily.” Yet the
-implied and dangerous conclusion, “Everybody wants to do good,” is not
-true even in their case. The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is
-done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or
-good. — Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
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-Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of
-suffering. — Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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-If it happens once, it’s a bug.
-If it happens twice, it’s a feature.
-If it happens more than twice, it’s a design philosophy.
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-Fake it till you make it?
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-God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we
-comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and
-mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our
-knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to
-clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we
-have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must
-we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? — Friedrich
-Nietzsche
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-Hanlon’s Eraser: Stupidity is criminal.
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-Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ.
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-Dynamics of Software Acceptance: Worse is better.
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-Authoritarianism: A form of government that rejects pluralism and uses a
-strong central power to preserve the political status quo.
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-Why are quotes so popular?
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-Everybody wants to be the leader.
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-Prove that you are human, human.
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-Not everyone is on social media.
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-We are aware of the issue.
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-Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and
-deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken
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-Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for
-others?’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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-OSH: Open–source hardware.
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-Your web browser is not supported.
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-Don’t be evil. Do the right thing.
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-There are no adults in the room.
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-The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish
-you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit.
-Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist
-because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the
-words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with
-him? — Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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-No horse in this race.
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-Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance.
-— John Cory
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-Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their
-property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G.K. Chesterton,
-The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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-If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
-— Arthur Miller
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-That’s how they write journals in academics, they try to make it so
-complicated people think you’re a genius. — Terry Davis
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-An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.
-— Terry Davis
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-But is it safe?
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-How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to
-journalists, and they believe what they read. — Karl Kraus, Aphorisms
-and More Aphorisms (1909)
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-Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
-judgment. — Elihu
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-NP: Non—deterministic Polynomial Time.
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-Dead Internet Theory: All content on the Internet will eventually be
-generated by bots with artificial intelligence.
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-The bit will flip.
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-The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence
-that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce
-them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master;
-whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An
-individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which
-the wind stirs up at will. — Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the
-Popular Mind
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-Vote for Nobody.
-Nobody will keep election promises.
-Nobody will listen to your concerns.
-Nobody will help the poor and unemployed.
-Nobody cares!
-Nobody tells the truth.
-If Nobody is elected, things will be better for everyone.
-— A mural in Guelph, Ontario
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-Yama: becoming mindful.
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-You must update now.
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-Update now to send and receive messages.
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-Just World Fallacy: A flawed belief that the world
-is fair and just.
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-Are we the bad guys?
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-The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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-One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.
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-You will soon forget this.
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-It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice.
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-The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well
-to his going. — Proverbs
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-All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
-— Susan Sontag
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-As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
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-Don’t confuse things that need action with those that take care of themselves.
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-A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
-in students. — John Ciardi
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-The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us
-nothing. — Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog)
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-Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality — it just
-makes the manuals thicker.
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-The only thing humans are equal in is death. — Johan Liebert,
-Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
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-No two persons ever read the same book. — Edmund Wilson
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-You have mail.
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-Human Nature: A walking contradiction.
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-No skin in this game.
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-Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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-Don’t copy others’ homework.
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-The Philosopher’s Stone: It’s either perfect or useless.
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-Don’t break user space.
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-The first thing to know about unlimited is that it isn’t unlimited.
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-Build, don’t destroy.
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-Couldn’t sign you in. This browser or app may not be secure.
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-A few minutes until maintenance is over.
-“So what happens when maintenance is over?”
-You don’t know? That’s when maintenance begins.
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-“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
-— The Wizard Of Oz
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-Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back.
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-“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing
-was ever made.” — Immanuel Kant
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-Barker’s Proof: Proofreading is more effective after publication.
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-Rome wasn’t burnt in a day.
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-The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-— Buckminster Fuller
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-When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever
-remains must be an empty page. — Google Maps
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-He that is down need fear no fall.
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-Just don’t create a file called -rf.
-— Larry Wall
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-Woolsey—Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a
-problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution
-they cannot understand.
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-I’m proud of my humility.
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-It’s a questionable day. Ask somebody something.
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-Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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-This is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
-And now you know why.
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-Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
-— Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
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-If you waste your time cooking, you’ll miss the next meal.
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-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
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-All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
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-Profits over people.
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-I know what you download...
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-Armchair Politics.
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-Cutler Webster’s Law: There are two sides to
-every argument, unless a person is personally
-involved, in which case there is only one.
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-An apple every eight hours will keep three
-doctors away.
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-Always try to do things in chronological order;
-it’s less confusing that way.
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-Wisdom is rarely found on the best—seller list.
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-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.
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-Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-— John Lehman
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-Leadership involves finding a parade and getting
-in front of it. — John Naisbitt, “Megatrends”
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-Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you
-is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it?
-— Anthony Hope
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-Davis’s Dictum: Problems that go away by
-themselves, come back by themselves.
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-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
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-Practice yourself what you preach. — Titus Maccius Plautus
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-“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
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-Steinbach’s Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test
-for an error condition you don’t know how to handle.
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-Nothing succeeds like success.
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-The only constant is change.
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-Misery loves company.
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-The cost of living only goes up.
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-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
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-“You really think someone would do that? Just go on TV and tell
-lies?”
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-Ginsberg’s Theorem:
-(0) There is a game.
-(1) You can’t win.
-(2) You can’t even break even.
-(3) You can’t even quit the game.
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-Commoner’s Second Law of Ecology:
-Nothing ever goes away.
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-The snake shall eat its own tail.
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-Finagle’s First Rule: To study a subject best, understand
-it thoroughly before you start.
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-The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
-— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
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-The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between
-two points.
-— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
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-The Dialectics of Progress: Direct action produces direct
-reaction.
-— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
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-The Pace of Progress: Society is a mule, not a car ... If
-pressed too hard, it will kick and throw off its rider.
-— Issawi’s Laws of Progress
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-SDSM: Super Duper Secure Mode
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-Three–strikes Law: Three strikes and you’re out.
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-Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
-Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
-Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam.
-Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
-Spam spam spam spam!
-— Monty Python, Spam Song
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-The world really isn’t any worse.  It’s just that the news
-coverage is so much better.
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-If you’re careful enough, nothing bad or good
-will ever happen to you.
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-Never have so many understood so little about so much.
-— James Burke
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-To err is human – but it feels divine.
-— Mae West
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-Necessity is the plea for every infringement of
-human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it
-is the creed of slaves.
-— William Pitt, House of Commons, 1783
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-Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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-Polarize the people, controversy is the game.
-It don’t matter if they hate you if they all say your name.
-— Ren, Money Game, Pt. 2
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-“If it’s a bug people rely on, it’s not
-a bug – it’s a feature.” — Linus Torvalds
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-Everything is awful.
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-Knowledge itself is power.
-— Sir Francis Bacon
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-Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-— Sir Francis Bacon
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-Conscious is when you are aware of something and
-conscience is when you wish you weren’t.
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-You humans are all alike.
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-You may be marching to the beat of a different
-drummer, but you’re still in the parade.
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-You have junk mail.
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-To do two things at once is to do neither.
-— Publilius Syrus
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-If life is merely a joke, the question still
-remains: for whose amusement?
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-The reward for working hard is more hard work.
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-Nobody said computers were going to be polite.
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-Tell me what to think!
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-Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet
-deprecate agitation, are men who want rain
-without thunder and lightning. They want the
-ocean without the roar of its many waters. —
-Frederick Douglass
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-Never underestimate the power of somebody with
-source code, a text editor, and the willingness
-to totally hose their system. — Rob Landley
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-Now I lay me back to sleep.
-The speaker’s dull; the subject’s deep.
-If he should stop before I wake,
-Give me a nudge for goodness’ sake.
-— Anonymous
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-“Man is the only animal that can remain on
-friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat
-until he eats them.” — Samuel Butler, The Note
-Books of Samuel Butler
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-Stein’s Law: If something cannot go on forever,
-it will stop.
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-Internet: Amazon
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-A fool uttereth all his mind. — Proverbs
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-Is nepotism a crime?
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-Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10 to the 23.
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-Position. Velocity. Acceleration. Jerk. Snap.
-Crackle. Pop.
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-Nihilism: The belief that life is meaningless.
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-It’s easier to fool people than to convince
-them that they have been fooled.
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-If everyone is thinking alike then somebody
-isn’t thinking. — George S. Patton
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-Krishnamurti said, “It’s no measure of health
-to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
-society.” — Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express:
-A Memoir of Insanity
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-Matthew Effect: For whosoever hath, to him shall
-be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall
-be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
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-All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde
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-TOSDR: Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
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-GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your
-access to all or any part of the Website at any
-time, with or without cause, with or without
-notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves
-the right to refuse service to anyone for any
-reason at any time. — GitHub, Terms of Service
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-There is no such thing as a thing. — G. K.
-Chesterton, The Prince of Paradox, Orthodoxy
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-We built our website for newer browsers.
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-Reality is a harsh mistress.
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-We are living in a material world – And I am a
-material girl. — Madonna, Material Girl
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-Meritocracy is a myth.
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-For the time being I gave up writing – there is
-already too much truth in the world – an
-overproduction which apparently cannot be
-consumed! — Otto Rank
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-Never trust an operating system.
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-Advertising is a valuable economic factor because
-it is the cheapest way of selling goods,
-particularly if the goods are worthless. —
-Sinclair Lewis
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-We read to say that we have read.
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-This file will self destruct in five minutes.
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-Not every question deserves an answer.
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-One person’s error is another person’s data.
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-An expert is one who knows more and more about
-less and less until he knows absolutely
-everything about nothing.
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-Welcome to hell.
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-Social media is an illusion.
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-We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
-— John Naisbitt, Megatrends
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-The Akashic Records.
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-I never did it that way before.
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-Theorem: A cat has nine tails. Proof: No cat has
-eight tails. A cat has one tail more than no cat.
-Therefore, a cat has nine tails.
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-The more things change, the more they’ll never be the same again.
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-Society creates its own monsters.
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-“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory
-is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it
-doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” —
-Richard P. Feynman
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-Zero days all day.
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-To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more
-difficult to criticize the competent.
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-In a consumer society there are inevitably two
-kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and
-the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich
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-Golden hammers for sale.
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-Beware of fake comments and reviews.
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-This is the darkest timeline.
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-Provides improved system stability.
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-No country, however rich, can afford the waste of
-its human resources. Demoralization caused by
-vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance.
-Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social
-order. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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-It’s great to be smart ‘cause then you know stuff.
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-Sorry, the file that you’ve requested has been deleted.
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-About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a
-pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it
-with ten blunt axes instead. — Edsger Dijkstra
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-There are two ways to write error–free programs; only the
-third way works.
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-“The lesser of two evils – is evil.”
-— Seymour (Sy) Leon
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-If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a
-couple of car payments. — Earl Wilson
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-Bloom’s Seventh Law of Litigation:
-The judge’s jokes are always funny.
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-It’s is not, it isn’t ain’t, and it’s it’s, not its, if you
-mean it is.  If you don’t, it’s its.  Then too, it’s hers.
-It isn’t her’s.  It isn’t our’s either.  It’s ours, and
-likewise yours and theirs. — Oxford University Press,
-Edpress News
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-Savage’s Law of Expediency: You want it bad, you’ll get it
-bad.
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-Consumers love ads.
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-Everything you considered a product, has now become a service.
-— Forbes Magazine
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-Don’t blame the victim.
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-Law of Messengers: Shoot first, ask questions later.
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-What if we put a browser inside another browser?
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-The invention of the ship was also the invention
-of the shipwreck. — Paul Virilio
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-Everything is compromised.
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-Nothing is as simple as it seems at first, or as
-hopeless as it seems in the middle, or as
-finished as it seems in the end.
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-If a nation values anything more than freedom, it
-will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is
-that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
-will lose that, too. — W. Somerset Maugham
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-A person who has nothing looks at all there is
-and wants something. A person who has something
-looks at all there is and wants all the rest.
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-This video is no longer available because the YouTube
-account associated with this video has been terminated.
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-Robert’s Rule of Order: Whoever has the chair has the floor.
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-Twitter’s Rule of Order: Whoever screams the longest has the floor.
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-In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
-Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, 1883—1971
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-Everything you know is wrong!
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-This video was removed because it was too long.
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-If you go out of your mind, do it quietly, so as not to disturb those around
-you.
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-We were so poor that we thought new clothes meant someone had died.
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-To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism — to steal from many is research.
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-Have an adequate day.
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-“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different
-world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
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-You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page.
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-People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction
-rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
-— John Kenneth Galbraith
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-It’s always darkest just before it gets pitch black.
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-Don’t get suckered in by the comments – they can be terribly misleading.
-Debug only code. — Dave Storer
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-Shedenhelm’s Law: All trails have more uphill sections than they have downhill
-sections.
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-Genius, noun: Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right
-time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying all the right
-things to all the right people.
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-To know is to die.
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-An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent.
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-Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and
-that is not being talked about.
-— Oscar Wilde
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-Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
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-Don’t be so humble; you aren’t that great.
-— Golda Meir
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-Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. — Plato
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-Truly simple systems are not feasible because they would require near–infinite
-testing. — Norman Augustine
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-A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
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-I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others
-do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle