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“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
― The Economist

“There is very little in this World somebody can't make a little worse and a little cheaper.”
― David P Elliot

“Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive.”
― English Folk musician Martin Carthy