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“You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands.

If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed”
― Viktor Shklovsky

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."

From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time. ”
― Orhan Pamuk, Other Colors: Essays and A Story

“There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.”
― Hal Abelson

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to
avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness
to expand.”
― Mark Abley

“aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan
kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu

aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada”
― Sapardi Djoko Damono

“As a reminder, that sometimes, history gives great enough opportunity to those with ideals and who struggle to test their ability to realize their dreams,”
― Sjahrir

“Apa gunanya banyak baca buku
Kalau mulut kau bungkam melulu”
― Wiji Thukul, Aku Ingin Jadi Peluru

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
― Harold Kushner

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“How it is done is as important as getting it done.”
― Sandro Mancuso, Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride

“Software craftsmanship is a long journey to mastery. It’s a mindset where software developers choose to be responsible for their own careers, constantly learning new tools and techniques and constantly bettering themselves.”
― Sandro Mancuso, Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride

“It is easy to say that a piece of code is badly written. It is easy to complain or even laugh. But the question is: are you good enough to make it better?”
― Sandro Mancuso, Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride

“A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.”
― Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning