"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."

-- Donald Knuth

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“The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.”
“Nothing exists until it is measured.”
“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'”
“There should not be a party within a party.”
“We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.11, New World Library
“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.”
“Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's”
“who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?”

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