"Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.”
“I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.”
“Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.”
“There's never enough time to do nothing!”
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.”
“I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.”
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'”

Source : "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

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