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"Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night."

~~anon

"I am the whirlwind. I am something unexpected. I am the fulcrum, the giver and the taker. I am the one who can be many places at once. I am the master of fate. I am the tool of fate."

~~Paul Maud'ib, from *Dune* (SciFi channel adaptation)

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"Signore Gaspare replied: "And what do you say about the game of chess?"
"That is certainly a refined and ingenious recreation,' said Federico, "but it seems to me to possess one defect; namely, that it is possible for it to demand too much knowledge, so that anyone who wishes to become an outstanding player must, I think, give to it as much time and study as he would to learning some noble science or performing well something or other of importance; and yet for all his pains when all is said and done all he knows is a game. Therefore as far as chess is concerned we
reach what is a very rare conclusion: that mediocrity is more to be praised than excellence.""

~~Baldesar Castiglione, Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen, 1528 A.D.

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"Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other--not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks."

~~Liv Ullman

"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door."

~~John Donne

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80% of all questions that begin with the word `why' can be answered with the simple sentence `people are stupid.'

~~Kevin Carson and Nick Johnson

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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

~~R. Buckminster Fuller

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"Teach him I cannot. This one has no patience."

~~Yoda, from Star Wars ep. 1

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"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."