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"As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications."


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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas Sowell

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it."
Charles Krauthammer

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

The freedom of poetic license.
Cicero

"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered."
Tina Turner

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richter

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
Octavio Paz

"To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody."
George Washington