They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
		-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding.
		-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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This is called a "meeting." The objective is twofold: talk as much as possible
and leave with no new assignments.
		-- Dilbert
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A name indicates what we seek.
An address indicates where it is.
A route indicates how we get there.
		-- Jon Postel (1943-1998), RFC 791
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
		-- Robert J. Hanlon
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The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are
so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
		-- Friedrich Schiller
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore,
if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.
		-- Brian W. Kernighan
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason
for existing.
		-- Albert Einstein
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
		-- U.S. Declaration of Independence
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We should thus begin to prepare for the day when there are more than 256
networks participating in the Internet.
		-- David D. Clark and Danny Cohen, June 1978
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"Look," whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven.
(There is always a last time for everything.)
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
		-- Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God
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There is something distasteful in the notion of a reward.
		-- Joseph Conrad, The Shadow Line
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This is a war of lies. Our politicians lie to the press, they see their lies
printed, and call them public opinion. By repetition, each lie becomes an
irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. Then we have a war.
This war.
		-- John le Carré, Absolute Friends
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When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over
generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving
lunatic.
		-- Dresden James
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First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
and then you win.
		-- Mahatma Gandhi
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As for people, well, the Solomon Islanders may have a point.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them.
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
		-- Robert Fulghum
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Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of
us who do.	
		-- Isaac Asimov
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
		-- Harry S. Truman
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
		-- Richard Feynmann
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
		-- Winston Churchill
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
		-- Philip K. Dick
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open.
		-- Frank Zappa (attrib)
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
		-- William Shakespeare
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In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create.
		-- David Ogilvy