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“It’s impossible to learn to plow by reading books” – “Old Russian Proverb” via Richard Linklater, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat… Read More »Choices and Sacrifices

“Don’t repeat yourself.” – Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” – Fight Club (1999 Film)

“Even a prodigious reader never has access to more than an infinitesimal fraction of the books that exist.” – Pierre Bayard, How to Talk about… Read More »Limitations of Reading

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness” – Montaigne (Quoted in How to Talk about Books You… Read More »Transient Knowledge

“For the critic, thus, literature or art occupy the same secondary position as nature for the writer or painter. Their function is not to serve… Read More »The Role of the Critic

“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If you want good grades, study. If you want to lose weight, exercise. If you want to communicate, make an effort. Methods are always obvious.… Read More »Simple Truths

“There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.” – Various