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- The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.
- Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone
- Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
- Unknown
- For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
- The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
- Unknown
- Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Rodin (1840 - 1917)
- Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
- Paulo Freire
- Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
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