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Just some quotes I like. The date in front of a quote indicates when it was quote of the day.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow."
- John Tobey

"I'm not young enough to know everything."
- J. M. Barrie

"Multitasking is the enemy of focus."
- Anonymous

"The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
- Ernst Berg

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not."
- Yogi Berra

source .bash_history
- Randall Munroe

rm -rf $DIRECTROY/*
- Randall Munroe

echo "source .bashrc" >> .bashrc
- Randall Munroe

2023-01-26 "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it."
- Jamie Zawinski

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

"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

"Against the average user, anything works; there's no need for complex security software. Against the skilled attacker, on the other hand, nothing works."
- Bruce Schneier

"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."
- Cory Doctorow

"Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime."
- Francesco Napoletano

"And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer."
- Douglas Adams

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
- Douglas Adams

"Irrationality is the square root of all evil."
- Douglas Hofstadter

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
- Linus Torvalds

"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
- Linus Torvalds

"Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive."
- Linus Torvalds

"I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me."
- Linus Torvalds

"Portability is for people who cannot write new programs."
- Linus Torvalds

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
- Linus Torvalds

"I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination."
- Linus Torvalds

"The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us. And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: FUCK. THAT. SHIT."
- Randall Munroe

"There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality."
- Richard Dawkins

"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you."
- Studs Terkel

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
- Martin Fowler

"Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?"
- Anonymous

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more."
- Alan Perlis

2023-01-24 "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
- George Carlin

"A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking."
- Unknown

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
- H. H. Munroe, "Saki"

2023-01-25 "An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot."
-Rich Julius"

"Never surrender to fascist zebras to cosplaying as unicorns."\

• Anthony Wang