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• Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naivete, without which the arts can never begin again.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
• Then there's the story of the man who avoided reality for 70 years with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies, records, a hobby, lots of sleep.
  .. And on his 80th birthday died without ever having faced any of his real problems....
• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- E. E. Cumming
• Character is that which can do without success. -- Emerso
• Cockroaches have done it for millions of years, without apparent ill-effects.
• Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did.
  In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe....
• The most important thing in the programming language is the name.
  A language will not succeed without a good name....