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"How to make a million dollars:  First, get a million dollars."
-- Steve Martin

"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."
-- B. L. Whorf

The language provides a programmer with a set of conceptual tools; if these are
inadequate for the task, they will simply be ignored.  For example, seriously
restricting the concept of a pointer simply forces the programmer to use a
vector plus integer arithmetic to implement structures, pointer, etc.  Good
design and the absence of errors cannot be guaranteed by mere language
features.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup, "The C++ Programming Language"

"For the love of phlegm...a stupid wall of death rays.  How tacky can ya get?"
- Post Brothers comics

"Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation."
-- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments

"An organization dries up if you don't challenge it with growth."
-- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments

"I've seen it.  It's rubbish."
-- Marvin the Paranoid Android

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"Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times
been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics,
culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation
of events.  Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two
millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there
are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more
nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined.
-- John K. Naland, "The First Easter", Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2