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Candide
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Qu'est-ce qu'optimisme ? disait Cacambo. — Hélas ! dit Candide, c'est la rage de soutenir que tout est bien quand on est mal.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.”
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
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“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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