"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."

-- Bill Joy

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“Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.”
“The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.”
“If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran.”
“Equivalence signifies uniformity and thus immobility.”
“You want to dance with me, angel tits?”
“A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration”
“You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.”
“The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.”

Source : "A History of Terrorism" by Walter Laqueur, (p. 71), 2001.

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