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"While Nazism is well understood as the monstrosity it was, there is often a lingering sense that Communism was well-intentioned, even though it went wrong. The merest connection with fascism bars a po…"

"SciFi Online Interview with Keel"

"Here is a list of the countries that America has been at war with - and bombed - since the second world war: China , Korea , Guatemala , Indonesia , Cuba , the Belgian Congo , Peru , Laos , Vietnam , …"

"You've got a blank face there pal, if you hold that expression for long enough you'd get fucking switched off."

"Don’t go chattering to the stars if you’re going to do it with your eyes closed."

"A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation."

"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."

"You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough."

"We are aware of all the inconveniences of prison, and that it is dangerous when it is not useless. And yet one cannot 'see' how to replace it. It is the detestable solution, which one seems unable to …"

"Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. I'm convinced that its syntax and internals are far better than the one's of its proprietary cousin."

"We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?"

"A good deal of our misconception with regard to the difficulty of the inquiry lies in ourselves that ideas of multitude connected with the peculiar customs of the race that have yet to be ascertained,…"

"Chemistry without catalysis would be a sword without a handle, a light without brilliance, a bell without sound."

"Comfortable circumstance ‘polishes’ one and uncomfortable circumstances ‘moulds’ one. What problem do we have with either of the two?"

"Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively litt…"

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

"The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water."

"I owe an apology to the pig for associating Giuliani with a pig."

"Follow Lewis Gordon Pugh on Twitter"

"Kill your doubt with the coldest of weapons: Confidence."