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“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”
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“It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.”
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“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“A civilization has the ethics it can afford”
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“When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Andrew’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Andrew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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