"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

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Source : "O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3". www.apacheweek.com. July 26, 2002.

Richard Stallman

#Thinking Quotes #Geek Quotes

“Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.”
“The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.”
“I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.”
“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”
“The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a timeâ€¦To put it bluntly, research shows that we canâ€™t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneouslyâ€¦Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.”
“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

Source : The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)
“Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.”
“I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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