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If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
-- George Orwell

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A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.
-- Fred Brooks

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What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
-- James Joyce

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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

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You're not going crazy! You're going sane in a crazy world!
-- The Tick

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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
-- Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

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I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?
-- Charles Montgomery Burns

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If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
-- Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)

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O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
despair not! For though dark they stand,
all woods there be must end at last,
and see the open sun go past:
the setting sun, the rising sun,
the day's end, or the day begun.
For east or west all woods must fail ...
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Pudding can't fill the emptiness inside me! But it'll help.
-- Captain Hazel 'Hank' Murphy