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Digiterata: BUT LET THIS NOT BLIND YOU TO WHAT VIRTUE THERE IS
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BUT LET THIS NOT BLIND YOU TO WHAT VIRTUE THERE IS; EVEN UNIX GURUS STRIVE
FOR HIGH IDEALS; EVEN THOUGH THEIR QUEST IS FUTILE; THEIR LIFE IS FULL OF
HEROISM. BE HONEST; YOUR COMPUTER KNOWS THE TRUTH.
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Everyone will avoid you, even though your personality isn't infectious.
Statesmen tell you what is true even though it may be unpopular.
Politicians will tell you what is popular, even though it may be untrue....
The modern computer is capable of answering, in a matter of seconds, mathematical questions that would take millions of years for a human being to answer (even longer if he stopped for lunch).
How does the computer do this? Simple. It makes everything up....
Quote #514 Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.
(This is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.) There is the truth you tell to casual strangers and acquaintances....
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow...
An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the duration of his stay on this planet.
Since neither the mouse nor the chip knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery....
Another lesson I learned was not to give pieces of my company away when it was small in exchange for investment capital.
In the first place, those shares would be worth millions today....
Hospitality: Making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were.