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“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be with each other.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”
― Martin Gardner

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place” (Deming 2000).”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine”
― Al-Ghazali

“The overall lesson of this chapter is that statistical malfeasance has very little to do with bad math.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

“The people have often made mistakes, but given time and the facts, they will make the corrections. —HARRY S. TRUMAN”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

“Her social media activity wasn’t great in this life, which was always a promising sign,”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“All architectures become iterative because of unknown unknowns, Agile just recognizes this and does it sooner.”
― Mark Richards, Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

“The Greater Good morphed into self-interest so easily; human history was full of it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void