my quotes file
This is my quotes file.
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"Clearly there's a severe conceptual difficulty with ideals of human behavior in which dead people can trump anything live people can do." -- B. Sterling
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker
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"It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do." -- Mike Doughty
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"Communication usually fails, except by accident." -- Osmo A. Wiio
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"A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge." -- Richard Sheridan, The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Smile at everyone, and don't tell them what you're thinking." -- P. Graham
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'Debuggers are OK, but when the going gets tough, the tough use “print”.' --Tim Bray
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"If you're one in a million, there are 768 of you on the Web, and you can find each other." -- Marc Smith, Microsoft Research
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
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Man plans, God laughs.
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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. -- Antonio Porchia
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The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. -- George Bernard Shaw
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The fact of the matter is that no group of engineers in a boardroom can ever anticipate what normal people will do with their inventions. -- Cory Doctorow.
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” -- Carl Sagan
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The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed. -- William Gibson
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"I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice." -- Albert Camus
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"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." -- Final message from the Whole Earth Catalog
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I'm just backing up the current contents for future reflection.
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"Clearly there's a severe conceptual difficulty with ideals of human behavior in which dead people can trump anything live people can do." -- B. Sterling
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker
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"It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do." -- Mike Doughty
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"Communication usually fails, except by accident." -- Osmo A. Wiio
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"A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge." -- Richard Sheridan, The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Smile at everyone, and don't tell them what you're thinking." -- P. Graham
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'Debuggers are OK, but when the going gets tough, the tough use “print”.' --Tim Bray
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"If you're one in a million, there are 768 of you on the Web, and you can find each other." -- Marc Smith, Microsoft Research
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
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Man plans, God laughs.
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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. -- Antonio Porchia
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The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. -- George Bernard Shaw
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The fact of the matter is that no group of engineers in a boardroom can ever anticipate what normal people will do with their inventions. -- Cory Doctorow.
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” -- Carl Sagan
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The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed. -- William Gibson
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"I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice." -- Albert Camus
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"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." -- Final message from the Whole Earth Catalog
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I'm just backing up the current contents for future reflection.