commit 63746dda92b67c9d80c86332a0a89ce7065a0ee6
parent add94f0bfe3c4df05b29d45031a4178b255b243b
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb@uw.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:46:06 -0700
Add more quotes
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diff --git a/assets/quotes.txt b/assets/quotes.txt
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"Shoot first, ask questions never but maybe apologize for the shooting because that probably wasn't helpful of me" - Linus Torvalds
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence" - David Hume
"The best code is no code at all" - Jeff Atwood
-"Code never lies, comments sometimes do." - Ron Jeffries
+"Code never lies, comments sometimes do" - Ron Jeffries
"Euler lacked only one thing to make him a perfect genius: he failed to be incomprehensible" - Frobenius
"Talent is doing easily what others find difficult, genius is doing easily what others find impossible"
+"You don't have to come up with really smart stuff, you just have to come up with dumb stuff first" - Bob Nystrom
+"I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive" - Randall Munroe
+"Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you" - Pericles
+"People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people" - Super Hans
+"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction" - Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbbs
+"Man is the most insane species. He worshpis an invisible God and destroys a visable Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying is this God he is worshipping" - Hubert Reeves
+"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that claim a god, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one" - Hunter Thompson
+"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an athiest, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you" - Werner Heisenberg
+"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all" - Adam Smith
+"Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees" - Emiliano Zapata
