commit a8a4895c75c9c01125b59af3699c26c9cdec8c13
parent b50fd0a06a923753bfdb171e88d7cc6eb9d08265
Author: Ed van Bruggen <ed@edryd.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:41:41 -0400
Update quotes
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1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/data/quotes.yaml b/data/quotes.yaml
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "See? You say something to someone enough times and eventually they internalize it, the system works", "Bojack Horseman" ]
- [ "We mathematicians work for the gruding approbation of a few friends" ]
- [ "For others, their technique serves their art, but for mathematicians our art is our technique", "broke math student" ]
- - [ "Look at my life and look at your, get some ambious, why you bored?", "Kendrick Lamar" ]
+ - [ "Look at my life and look at yours, get some ambition, why you bored? Time will never wait on no man, society will never hold your hand", "Kendrick Lamar" ]
- [ "Inclusion is not enough, diversity is not enough, we do not want to be included in a racist soceity where profit counts much more than human beings", "Angela Davis" ]
- [ "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct", "Neils Bohr" ]
- [ "Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand", "Kurt Vonnegut" ]
@@ -433,3 +433,24 @@ quotes:
- [ "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things", "Henri Poincaré" ]
- [ "One of the embarrassments of applied probabilty is that we cannot analyze the original game of solitare", "Persi Diaconis" ]
- [ "The tree that doesn't bend, breaks. Bend too far, you're already broken" ]
+ - [ "He who fears that he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears", "Michel de Montaigne"]
+ - [ "If you almost never add anything, you get C. If you almost never remove anything, you get C++", "Raffi Molero"]
+ - [ "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery", "Frank Zappa" ]
+ - [ "Inside every bullet is a coward", "Peggy Hill" ]
+ - [ "If you want to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh or they'll kill you", "George Bernard Shaw"]
+ - [ "It's easy to appear spiritually evolved while sipping Ayahuasca or reciting scriptures. The real test is who you are in traffic, when you come across someone with an opposing view, or when your food's late", "Vex King"]
+ - [ "Cease the time, live now, make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again", "Jean-Luc Picard"]
+ - [ "When education isn't liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor", "Paulo Freire" ]
+ - [ "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place", "G.K. Chesterton" ]
+ - [ "If you want to conduct an orchestra you have to turn your back to the audience" ]
+ - [ "Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise", "John W. Tukey" ]
+ - [ "With your mind you create the world. But before our minds create the world, the world creates our minds", "Gabor Mate" ]
+ - [ "Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost", "Bjarne Stroustrup" ]
+ - [ "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidently for machines to execute", "Harold Abelson" ]
+ - [ "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails", "Dolly Parton" ]
+ - [ "We can give other people names and lists, but we cannot give them our mental structures; they must build their own", "John Holt" ]
+ - [ "That which can not be repaired is already broken" ]
+ - [ "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you", "Neil deGrasse Tyson"]
+ - [ "The more you are focused on time past and future the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is", "Eckart Tolle"]
+ - [ "If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work", "Steve Yegge"]
+ - [ "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easilty make differently", "David Graeber"]
