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Jon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Jon Parise’s Followers (6)
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Jon Parise
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in The United States
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December 2007
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Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2
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2005
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Professional PHP4 Programming
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Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL
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2001
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“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
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Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
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“What's past is prologue.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
― Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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