Paul Knighton

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Paul is Currently Reading

Paul Knighton is currently reading

Start-up: Silicon Valley Venture Story

by Jerry Kaplan (Goodreads Author)

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The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

by Martha Ackmann

bookshelves: owned, space, currently-reading

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101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World

by Adams

bookshelves: space, owned, currently-reading

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“When I use a PC today I cannot understand why a machine with 1,000 times more processing power has a worse user response than the machine I was using in the late ’80s at Acorn,’ remarks Steve Furber. ‘Well, I do know why it is, but it still seems the wrong answer.”
― Tom Lean, Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

tags: computer, pc, performance

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“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

1612 likes

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

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“I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.”
― George Alec Effinger, When Gravity Fails

9 likes

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

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