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Rick’s favorite books

The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage Code Complete by Steve McConnell The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Peopleware by Tom DeMarco Rapid Development by Steve McConnell Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson
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The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Being an irreligious puritan and a rational mystic, I think it’s irresponsible to let a belief think for you or a chemical dream for you.
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Rick’s Quotes

Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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Mark Twain
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
tags: attributed-no-source, education
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Waseem Latif
“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”
― Muhammad Waseem
tags: coding, developer, frustrated, program, programming
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Brian W. Kernighan
“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
― Brian Kernighan
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