"I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux."

-- Donald Knuth

#Memories Quotes #Ubuntu Quotes #Jewels Quotes

“Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.”
“I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.”
“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”
“We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.”
“When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.”
“Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.”
“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
“What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2011). “Cosi Fan Tutti”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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