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The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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"SWE in 26D was reading on my flight back from Washington. Didn't realize it was Hobsbawm -- now I'm much more inclined to pick it up and finish it later :)" — May 28, 2024 11:42PM

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VLSI Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure

by Andrew B. Kahng

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winterwind’s Quotes

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

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

tags: science

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“Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, and at the same time that indestructible something as well as his trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.”
― Franz Kafka

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“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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