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title: "Quotes I Like"
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
\- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow."
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\- John Tobey
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"I'm not young enough to know everything."
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\- J. M. Barrie
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"Multitasking is the enemy of focus."
\- Anonymous
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"The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
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\- Ernst Berg
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not."
\- Yogi Berra
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`source .bash_history`
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\- Randall Munroe
`rm -rf $DIRECTROY/*`
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\- Randall Munroe
`echo "source .bashrc" >> .bashrc`
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\- Randall Munroe
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"The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it."
\- Jamie Zawinski
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"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
\- Alan Kay
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"In China, programs have to be certified by the government in order to be used on computers there, which sounds an awful lot like the Apple store."
\- Bruce Schneier
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"Against the average user, anything works; there's no need for complex security software. Against the skilled attacker, on the other hand, nothing works."
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\- Bruce Schneier
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"As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed."
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\- Cory Doctorow
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"Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime."
\- Francesco Napoletano
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"And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer."
\- Douglas Adams
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"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
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\- Douglas Adams
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"Irrationality is the square root of all evil."
\- Douglas Hofstadter