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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 4, 2008
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
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Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08
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