commit 01c2df7ff42473ae05cddd2f06b80b5d739c0499
parent 7e6e6cfd2b5fbd5765ee65a285686b0ace4839e0
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb54@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 23:39:16 -0700
Update quotes
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1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/assets/quotes.txt b/assets/quotes.txt
@@ -48,12 +48,11 @@
"When you are torn between two choices, always pick the one that will make the best story"
"How you live each day is how you live your life"
"Only boring people are bored"
-"Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but legal fiction" - Max Stirner
"Every revolution is impossible until it happens. At that point, all agree that it was inevitable"
"Hydrogen is a colourless, odorless gas, which if left alone in large enough quantities, for long enough, will begin to think about itself"
"Trying is the first step towards failure" - Homer Simpson
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal"
-“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor seem themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
"Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order—in short, of government" - Albert Einstein
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" - Will Durant
@@ -77,10 +76,9 @@
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say" - Edward Snowden
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace" - Chuck Palahniuk
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" - Plato
-"When someone wrongs us, we want the maximum amount of punishment. But when we do wrong, we want the maximum amount of understanding and forgiveness"
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple" - Barry Switzer
"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life"
-"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" - Karl Marx's lasts words
+"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" - Karl Marx's last words
"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways—the point however is to change it" - Karl Marx
@@ -103,10 +101,17 @@
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another" - Milton Friedman
"Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me" - Linus Torvalds
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program" - Linus Torvalds
-"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph" - Linus Torvalds
"If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect" - Linus Torvalds
-"Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce" - Linus Torvalds
+"Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce" - Linus Torvalds
"I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual" - Linus Torvalds
"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it" - Linus Torvalds
"If the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C" - Linus Torvalds
"Your code is shit... your argument is shit" - Linus Torvalds
+"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread" - Anatole France
+"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe" - Anatole France
+"Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water" - Anatole France
+"You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists" - Anatole France
+"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing" - Anatole France
+"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another" - Anatole France
+"It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live" - Anatole France
+"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory" - Friedrich Engels
