Favourite Quotes

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place
for the first time."
-- T.S Eliot

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"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too
much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and
at the wrong times;
premature optimization is the root of all evil
(or at least most of it) in programming."
-- Donald Knuth

_{Structured Programming with go to statements}

"My designs were so deceptively simple that is was easy for
people to assume I just had easy problems, whereas others, who
made super-complicated designs (that were technically unsound
and never worked) and were able to talk about them in ways that
nobody understood, were considered geniuses."
-- Radia Perlman

"If you stand for the truth, you will always stand alone."
-- Lucky Dube

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

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"Truly free actions require options."

_{Determinism vs Free Will, Crash Course Philosophy #24}

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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