"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."

-- Wietse Venema

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“The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.”
“When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.”
“I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.”
“In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.”
“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

Source : Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47
“I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.”
“It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.”

Source : Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books

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