QOTD Ian Fleming's James Bond

QOTD Ian Fleming’s James Bond

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You are 'cleverer' than you look. - James BondStill better than looking 'cleverer' than you are. - Q (en repartee) ...
QOTD Leslie Poles Hartley, CBE

QOTD Leslie Poles Hartley, CBE

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‘The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there’ - L.P. Hartley, 1953 ...
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QOTD Anil Dash

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via Wikimedia Commons 'Seriously, though, surreptitiously spying on what users do is actually the underpinning of the entire web advertising industry.' - Anil Dash ...
QOTD Winston Churchill

QOTD Winston Churchill

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'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.' - Winston Churchill ...
QOTD Stewart Brand

QOTD Stewart Brand

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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road" Stewart Brand ...
QOTD John von Neumann, Ph.D.

QOTD John von Neumann, Ph.D.

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I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers. - John von Neumann, 1946 ...
QOTD Thucydides

QOTD Thucydides

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"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides ...
QOTD Henry Spencer

QOTD Henry Spencer

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"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."-Henry Spencer ...
QOTD Ken Thompson

QOTD Ken Thompson

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“You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.”-- Ken Thompson ...
QOTD Abraham Lincoln

QOTD Abraham Lincoln

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If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend five hours sharpening the ax. —Abraham Lincoln ...