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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
    ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
    tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, computer-science, simile
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Paul A. Samuelson
    “Good questions outrank easy answers.”
    ― Paul A. Samuelson
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
    “Dream, Dream Dream
    Dreams transform into thoughts
    And thoughts result in action.”
    ― APJ ABDUL KALAM
    tags: inspirational
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    Brian W. Kernighan
    “Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.”
    ― Brian W. Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style
    tags: software-craftmanship, software-engineering
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: love, mercy
    3752 likes

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  • #13
    Maxim Gorky
    “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
    ― Maxim Gorky
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    Vālmīki
    “Misfortune is the best fortune.
    Rejection by all is victory.”
    ― Vālmīki
    tags: fortune, hinduism, rejection, victory
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #18
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Donald Ervin Knuth
    “Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.”
    ― Donald Ervin Knuth
    tags: art, programming, science
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    කේ. ජයතිලක
    “විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය බොහෝ දෙනා අදහස් කරන පරිදි බහුශ්‍රැතභාවය බෙදා දෙන තැනක් නොවේ. විද්‍යාර්ථින් විසින් තෝරා ගන්නා ලද ඒ ඒ විෂයට නිවැරදි සම්ප්‍රාප්තිය ලබා දෙන ආයතනයකි. අවුරුදු තුන හතරක් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයක ගත කිරීමෙන් ලද හැකි බහුශ්‍රැතභාවය කුමක්ද? එයින් ලබා ගත හැක්කේ ඊට නිවැරදි මග පෙන්වීම පමණකි. බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු විය හැක්කේ ඒ මාර්ගය දිගේ බොහෝ කලක් ගමන් කිරීමෙනි. කෙනෙකු බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු වීම ඇරඹෙන්නේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් පිට වූ තැන සිටය.”
    ― කේ. ජයතිලක, දින සටහන්
    tags: education
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    Sun Tzu
    “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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    Richard Dawkins
    “There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    කේ. ජයතිලක
    “- චන්ද්‍රානි වගේ කවුරුත් මේ ලෝකෙ ඇතියි කියල මං හිතන්නෙ නෑ.

    - ඒ ඇයි? ඒ චරිතය හරිම තාත්විකයි.

    - චන්ද්‍රානි මවාපු චරිතයක්. ඒක තාත්වික වෙන්ඩ ඇති. ඒ උණාට තාත්වික චරිතයක් කියන්නෙ හැබෑ චරිතයක් නෙවි. හැබෑ මිනිසුන් පොත්වල චරිත තරම් තාත්වික නෑ”
    ― කේ. ජයතිලක, අතීරණය
    tags: reality-of-life
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    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
    2535 likes



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