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Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.
“Politicians understand that reason will never have much of an effect on voting decisions. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.”
― How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
― How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
“Bacon sellers can be criminally charged for selling shingle-packed bacon if consumers can’t see at least 70 percent of a “representative slice” through that little window in the package.”
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
“With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I suggest that we should not take too seriously anyone who can sense an insinuation in every advertising statement, and for whom a phallic symbol is anything longer than it is wide.”
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
“superstitious people—including Martin Luther—believed that the devil had no buttocks and that by exposing one’s own buttocks in his general direction, the devil would be so envious at the mere sight of a rear end that he would avert his gaze and leave the mooner alone.”
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jesse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
90 books
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32 friends
1,369 books
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28 friends
600 books
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64 friends
62 books
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71 friends
315 books
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36 friends
134 books
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21 friends
0 books
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9 friends
1 book
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31 friends
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