"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

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“The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”
“Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.”
“Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.”
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.”
“I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people”
“Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.”
“In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

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