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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 25, 2025
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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E. W. Dijkstra  
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)  
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson  
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)  
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