"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

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Source : "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.

Douglas Gwyn

#Clever Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Technology Quotes

“Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.”
“Train insane or remain the same.”
“I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.”
“I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.”
“Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.”
“Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.”
“To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.”
“We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.”

Source : "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality". Book by Joseph Chilton Pearce, 1971.

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