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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.”
― Daniel Keys Moran

“The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.”
― Richard Bandler

“If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.”
― Richard Bandler

“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
― Amy Carmichael

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)”
― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight

“Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.”
― Hilaire Belloc