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🇮🇹Galileo Galilei

Science

1564–1642

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

"People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime."

"The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."

"I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'."

"I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise."

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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"

"I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don't know what to copy!"

"An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only."

"I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string."

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Bassel Khartabil

Technology

free-culture movement

1981–2015

"Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning."

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William John Macquorn Rankine

Science

1820–1872

"This law , and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics."

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime."

"The Code-and-Fix Model. The basic model used in the earliest days of software development contained two steps:"

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🇺🇸Richard Stallman

Technology

free software movement

b. 1953

"GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it."

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🇮🇷Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Politics

b. 1956

"The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region."

"Lenin was an undisputed leader of the proletariat, political leader, researcher, scientist, founder, who made important contributions to the socialist construction."

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

"Twenty years from now, when space travel is likely to become mundane like airline travel today, we don't want to be buying travel tickets on other people's space vehicles."

"Yet at every turn, vested interests oppose even technological changes... And so it goes."

"It's the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom."

"And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciuszko fell!"

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🇫🇷Henri de Saint-Simon

Literature

utopian socialism

1760–1825

"The progress of the human mind, the revolutions which occur in the development of knowledge, give each century its special character."

"very structure has a resistant function to fulfill... to ensure ...the static equilibrium of the structure for a long period of time."

"If Bordeaux red wines were carbonated, McDonald's would be a lot more interested in selling them."

"The mind of a traveler has only one spotlight, and it is always trained on the present scene."

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🇫🇷Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Literature

classical music

1760–1836

"La Marseillaise: 'The Greatest National Anthem in the World, Ever' - BBC News"

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."

"I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic."

"The plan of the present paper is to discuss properties of systems more or less abstractly; that is to define system and to describe the properties that are common to many systems and which serve to characterize them all."

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