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“Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.”
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“A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on”
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“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.”
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“I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.”
Source : Evo Morales' remarks at the press conference during his first visit to Cuba, December 2005.
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“In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.”
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“A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.”
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“It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.”
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“Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.”
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“Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.”
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“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”
Source : "The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 3". Book by Donald Knuth, www.wired.com. 1973. 
