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#1

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

tags: open-mindedness, science

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#2

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing

1186 likes

#3

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

7903 likes

#4

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

tags: 1984, maintenance, programming

139 likes

#5

“Oh billions of dollars — is there no dispute you can’t settle?”
― John Stewart

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#6

“90% of everything is crap.”
― Theodore Sturgeon

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#7

“When applied to software, Sturgeon's Law is hopelessly optimistic.”
― Alberto Savinio

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#8

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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#9

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
― Edsger Dijkstra

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#10

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”
― Philip Greenspun

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#11

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
― Linus Pauling

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#12

“The best is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability

193 likes

#13

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”
― William Faulkner

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#14

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing

1014 likes

#15

“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”
― Alan Kay

tags: programming

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#16

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history

827 likes

#17

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: discovery, object-constancy, open-mindedness

60 likes

#18

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
― John Maynard Keynes

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#19

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

tags: 1998

1494 likes

#20

“But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

tags: enjoyment, infinity, tea, tears

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