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“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

“Linux is only free if your time has no value.” – Jamie Zawinski

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” – Alfred Hitchcock

“Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their… Read More »Genius and Effort

“Time flies when you’re having fun.” – Various

“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