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Jerzy Jerzy said: " Just started it, but I already love the vision set forth in the preface and introduction.

"This book concentrates on 'getting' good graphics. [...] Why not 'great' graphics? This is a practical book written with real applications in mind. Everyone may
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E. Nesbit
“Child,” said the Sand-fairy sleepily, “I can only advise you to think before you speak” –
“But I thought that you never give advice.”
“That piece doesn’t count,” it said. “You’ll never take it! Besides, it’s not original. It’s in all the copy-books.”
E. Nesbit, Five Children and It

Terry Pratchett
“Do you understand what’s going on here?”
Hodgesaargh took another slow look at the scene. “No,” he said.
“In that case’s not my job to understand this sort of thing,” said the falconer. “I wasn’t trained. Probably takes a lot of training, understanding this. That’s your job. And her job. Can you understand what’s going on when a bird’s been trained and’ll make a kill and still came back to the wrist?”
“Well, no—”
“There you are, then. So that’s all right. Cup of tea, was it?”
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Paul J. Silvia
“Never reward writing with not writing. Rewarding writing by abandoning your schedule is like rewarding yourself for quitting smoking by having a cigarette.”
Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

Terry Pratchett
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Terry Pratchett
“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.”
Terry Pratchett, The Science Of Discworld

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