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Freedom
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
- George Washington
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven.
- David Lloyd George
Geek
Please send all flames, trolls, and complaints to /dev/toilet
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
- Linus Torvalds
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
- Linus Torvalds
My boss can't ask me to do something to Linux that I wouldn't want to do.
- Linus Torvalds
You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
- Linus Torvalds
Politics
Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.
- George W. Bush
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
- Ronald Reagan
You don't need to be smart to be president.
- George W. Bush
I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W. Bush
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
Technology
The Twentieth Century, the innovative century that brought you WW I, WW II, and WWW.
- Bill Higgins
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Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles- Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
- Philip Greenspun
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
- Robert Wilensky
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
, 1899
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
- Cosmo
, Sneakers
Wisdom
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Benjamin Franklin
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
- James Bryant Conant
Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
- Bernard Baruch
Trust your hunches. They are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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