"The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card."

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Source : Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”

Dennis Ritchie

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“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
“Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field.”
“I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.”
“The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.”

Source : Saint-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo (1971). “St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo”
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
“Although Iâ€™m weak and full of flaws, I will never stop moving forward. No matter who I am, no one other than myself will create my own existence. No matter what others may think or feel, I will still move forward as myself.”
“We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.”

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