"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."

-- Wietse Venema

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“A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.”
“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”
“It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.”
“A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.”
“I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.”
“One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.”
“If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.”
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”

Source : Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”

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