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  • #1
    “The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
    David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

  • #2
    Steve Jobs
    “You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #3
    Larry Niven
    “That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”
    Larry Niven

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #5
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #6
    “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
    Mario Savio

  • #7
    “Collection or an appropriate subtype is generally the best return type for a public, sequence- returning method.”
    Joshua Bloch, Effective Java : Programming Language Guide

  • #8
    William Faulkner
    “...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #9
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “When you are driving, you're outside and inside, moving and completely still, all at the same time.
    I think that's something.”
    Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
    tags: comedy



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