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Nobody Can Be So Amusingly Arrogant As A Young Man Who Has Just Discovered An Old Idea And Thinks It Is His Own.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
-- Sydney Harris
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Brief History Of Linux (#19) Boy meets operating system The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ.
of Helsinki's Fall 1990 Unix & C course. During one class, the professor experienced difficulty getting Minix to work properly on a Sun box....
Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
-- Sydney J. Harri...
I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. "The pin I'm wearing means I'm a member of the IA.
That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is somebody in love....
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952)...
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harri