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The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

by Morozov Evgeny

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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives

by Carl W. Stern

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)

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“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

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“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus

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“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“If the world changed, I could not exist, and if I changed, the world could not exist”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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