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The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

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William C. Brown
Age: 82 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 22
Died: 1999
Died: February 3
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Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race well, start killing some of its powerful members.
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As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
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Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
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The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
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Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!
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The real hero must fail in order to succeed.
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An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.
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What's the meaning of giornalista professionista? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!
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If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
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In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.
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Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.
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Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.
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We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.
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To vegetate you don't need to read!
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The more you find out about the world economy, the less you may truly know.
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What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same.
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It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.
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How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.
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Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.
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