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“The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.”
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“For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.”
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“To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.”
Source : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House
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“The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.”
Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.”
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“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.”
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“We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.”
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“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”
