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“Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.”
Source : "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.
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“Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.”
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“We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.”
Source : "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.
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“I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.”
Source : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.215, Penguin
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“Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.”
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“The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.”
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“Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.”
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“I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.”