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  • #1
    Harold Abelson
    “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
    Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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

  • #3
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #4
    John Maynard Keynes
    “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
    John Maynard Keynes

  • #5
    Voltaire
    “The best is the enemy of good.”
    Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

  • #6
    Alan Kay
    “The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”
    Alan Kay

  • #7
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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

  • #9
    Noam Chomsky
    “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

  • #10
    Kakuzō Okakura
    “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



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