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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
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I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.
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When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.
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Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.
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Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.
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If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.
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Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time
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You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.
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When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.
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A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.
