"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."

-- Dennis Ritchie

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.”
“...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.”
“It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.”
“I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.”
“Forward my mail to Mars.”
“Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.”
“Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.”
“The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.”

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