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I had to repeat things, I’d do precisely the same, because once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success and set the stage for anarchy.
“For me drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat. At”
― Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
― Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“But in ten years’ time Rossum’s Universal Robots will be making so much wheat, so much material, so much of everything that nothing will cost anything. Everyone will be able to just take as much as he needs. Nobody will live in poverty. They won’t have jobs, that’s true, but that’s because there won’t be any jobs to do. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only the things they want to do, they can live their lives just so that they can make themselves perfect.”
― R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots
― R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots
“Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.”
― JavaScript: The Good Parts
― JavaScript: The Good Parts
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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