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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
 
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. 
 
There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
 
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
 
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
 
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
 
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
 
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
 
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
 
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
 
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
 
The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
 
If you have no problem, you've got a problem.
 
What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
 
ON SONGWRITING
It's like glueing macaroni to a piece of cardboard and painting it gold
 
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'
 
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
 
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
 
THE BULLSHIT ASYMMETRY
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." (Alberto Brandolini)
 
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
 
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