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“I didn’t try to communicate any kind of philosophy since I am not a philosopher. I am a photographer. That’s it.”

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“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.”

“I never felt the need to do what everyone else did. And I wasn’t troubled by the fact that other people were doing other things.”

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Resonant Thoughts

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."

— Donald Knuth

Science1938

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"“After he returned to the capital in the year AH 632 the Sultan led the hosts of Islam toward Malwah, and took the fortress and town of Bhilsan, and demolished the idol-temple which took three hundred…"

— Iltutmish

Politics1192–1236

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"Automatic design has the computer do too much and the human do too little, whereas automatic programming has the human do too much and the computer do too little. Both techniques are important, but ar…"

— Douglas T. Ross

Philosophy1929–2007

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"A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and…"

— John Lancaster Spalding

Literature1840–1916

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