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"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." »Rich Kulawiec
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses." »Unknown
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"A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong." »Unknown
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." »James Klass
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"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself." »Sir John Vanbrugh
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"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it." »William A. Orton
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"Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." »Michel de Montaigne
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"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly." »Paul Valery
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"The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . ." »Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
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"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut." »Johann von Goethe
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"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time." »William E. Holler
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"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
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"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic." »Alexis DeTocqueville
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