"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.”
“History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.”
“I need some air. I`m still feeling a tad... dead.”
“...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.”
“There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.”

Source : "John Calipari Won't Acknowledge That Louisville Is In Kentucky" by Mike Rutherford, www.sbnation.com. October 3, 2011.
“It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.”

Source : "Biology Major Bobby Jindal Pleads Ignorance On Evolution And Climate Science" by Joe Romm, thinkprogress.org. September 18, 2014.
“I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.”

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