as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is always best pleased by a novelty, which has not yet proved illusive.
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“AS A chemist, Vogel knew how to make a bomb. In fact, much of his training was to avoid making them by mistake.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
“On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.”
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge.”
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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