"Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt."

-- Charles Simonyi

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“Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.”

Source : "Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market". Book by Jim Rogers, March 27, 2007.
“I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.”
“I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.”
“Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?”
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
“If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.”

Source : "Zakir Naik's incendiary words" by Tehmina Kazi, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2010.
“I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.”

Source : Steve Saint (2010). “End of the Spear”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“I work out all the time. I love it.”

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