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Jun 12 '13
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“You don’t get taught; you have to learn. We tend to look at the teacher/learner relationship the wrong way around: it’s not that the teacher teaches; it’s that the student learns. The learning is always up to you.”
— Andy Hunt - “Pragmatic Thinking & Learning - Refactor Your Wetware”
Apr 24 '12
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“but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open,”
— Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Dec 30 '11
Dec 15 '11
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“The brain is an organ that builds models and makes creative predictions, but its models and predictions can easily be specious as valid. Our brains are always looking at patterns and making analogies. If correct correlations cannot be found, the brain is more than happy to accept false ones. Pseudoscience, bigotry, faith, and intolerance are often rooted in false analogy.”
— Jeff Hawkins
Dec 14 '11
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“Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”
— Oscar Hammerstein II
Sep 7 '11
Aug 29 '11
Sep 14 '10
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“In the beginning, was the word.
And the word was programmed in classic binary.
And the word said: let there be life!
And so, somewhere in the technocore volts of my mothers estate, frozen sperm from my long dead daddy was defrosted, set in suspension, shaken like the vanilla malts of Yur, loaded in to something part squirt gun part dildo, and at the magic touch of a trigger, ejaculated into mother in a time when the moon was full and the egg was ripe.
(…)”
And the word was programmed in classic binary.
And the word said: let there be life!
And so, somewhere in the technocore volts of my mothers estate, frozen sperm from my long dead daddy was defrosted, set in suspension, shaken like the vanilla malts of Yur, loaded in to something part squirt gun part dildo, and at the magic touch of a trigger, ejaculated into mother in a time when the moon was full and the egg was ripe.
(…)”
— from Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Mar 8 '10
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“If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.”
— Dave Dunseath | Submitted by: LightNight (via quote-book)
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Mar 4 '10
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“Yeah, in a basement. You know, fightin’ in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, you’re fightin’ in a basement!”
— Lt Aldo Raine (Inglourious Basterds) (via blnkpgs) (via quote-book)