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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.
“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
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.”
― JavaScript: The Good Parts
― JavaScript: The Good Parts
“When we appreciate others for who they are, not who we want them to be, then, and only then, will we understand.”
― Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
― Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“In shadowy woods the burnished lake Darkly complained a secret pain, By circling shores embraced again; And heaven’s clear sun leaned down to take A road astray in azure deeps, Like burning tears the lover weeps.”
― Spaceman of Bohemia
― Spaceman of Bohemia
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