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"I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward." »George Washington
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"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department." »Jeff Meyer
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"IMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999." »Steve Jobs
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"Luck is the residue of design." »Branch Rickey
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"I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe." »James Lileks
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"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good." »T. S. Eliot
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"Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." »Steve Jobs
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"I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner." »Kedar Joshi
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"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." »Otto von Bismark
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"See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." »William Shakespeare
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"Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain." »Sharon Salzberg
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"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." »William Shakespeare
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." »Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer." »Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
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"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams." »Les Brown
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"The computer is a moron." »Peter Drucker
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"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other." »Ivy Baker Priest
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"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." »Weisert
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"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." »Robert Orben
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." »Ken Olson
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." »John Adams
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