"About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes"

-- Steve Yegge

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“Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
“The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.”
“Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.”
“Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant”
“I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.”
“Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.”
“They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.”
“Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.”

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