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• Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would behave very differently from those who now hold it -- whe
  in truth, in order to get power we would have to become very much like them....
• Technique?" said the programmer turning from his terminal, "What I follow is Tao -- beyond all technique!
  When I first began to program I would see before me the whole problem in one mass....
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• The following appeared in a newsletter about health published in the country of Sauria.
  "According to Sauria's leading nutritional experts, a diet high in complex carbohydrates, and low in fat is optimal for good health and longevity....
• The entire work force of the Communist countries is sunjected to periodic purges (called verifications in Newspeak).
  One of the most severe took place in 1957 when Novotny, rattled by the Hungarian Revolution the year before, tried hard to weed out "radishes" (red outside, white inside) from all but insignificant positions....
• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
  Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairma...
• Price Wang's programmer was coding software. His fingers danced upon the keyboard.
  The program compiled without an error message, and the program ran like a gentle wind....