"The best theory is inspired by practice."

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Donald Knuth

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“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.”
“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”
“If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.”
“As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.”
“People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult
“What I've learned is that love is made up of three ingredients: consideration, spontaneity, and [whispers] oral sex for guys and women.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.14, University of Georgia Press
“We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.”

Source : "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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