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“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”
― The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
― The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“If the word ''fuck'' is ''obscene'' or ''dirty'', why isn't the word ''duck'' 75% ''dirty''?”
― Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
― Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.”
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“A fair realization of the incredible degree of the diversity of linguistic system that ranges over the globe leaves one with an inescapable feeling that the human spirit is inconceivably old; that the few thousand years of history covered by our written records are no more than the thickness of a pencil mark on the scale that measures our past experience on this planet; that the events of these recent millenniums spell nothing in any evolutionary wise, that the race has taken no sudden spurt, achieved no commanding synthesis during recent millenniums, but has only played a little with a few of the linguistic formulations and views of nature bequeathed from an inexpressibly longer past.”
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