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the profits from the Medici Bank have made Florence one of the architectural and cultural wonders of Europe, enabling the family to commission such artists as Donatello, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci. Yet even amongst such geniuses, it
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“We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
“So long as you’re still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.”
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“Лучше хлеб с водой чем пирог с бедой
Better bread and water than pie with trouble”
― In the First Circle
Better bread and water than pie with trouble”
― In the First Circle
“When you go out to the world because of the love that someone else has for you, you are all aglow not with your perception of reality but with the love that you have received from someone else; someone else controls the switch and when it is switched off the glow fades away.”
― The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
― The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
“Computers have no idea what goes on outside of them except what humans tell them.”
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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