"A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity."

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

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“There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.”
“Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward.”
“The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.”
“If you want to be clear, act.”
“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.”
“Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.”
“They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!”

Source : "Studies in Islamic Poetry (The Meditations of Al-Ma'arri)". Book by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, 1921.
“Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.”

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