"The computer is a moron."

-- Peter Drucker

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“Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.”
“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
“Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.”
“Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.”
“Itâ€™s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinsonâ€™s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.”
“Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
“That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”
“My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.”

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