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Quote by Joan D. Vinge

“A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.”

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Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author born on April 2, 1948. Her works are known for their profound philosophical insights and rich imagination, with 'Snow Crash' and 'Cat's Cradle' being among her most beloved novels. more

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.”

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.”

Knows Giving Kind Children Ideas Difficult Rooms Giving Up New Ideas Grownups

Author:Monica Furlong

“Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.”

World Force Optimism Twins Entropy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.”

Ocean Crosses Dirty Washing

Author:Confucius

“Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.”

Humans Hands Human Beings Drug Lays Alcohol

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling.”

Guy Three Company Wall Office Thirds Phones Ceilings Annoyed Coworker Cubicles

Author:Robert X. Cringely

Air Walking Horse Election Buttons Tails Disbelief Showing Off Straight Up Up In The Air

Author:Dan Quayle

“Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.”

Firsts Order Left Class Depth Appearance Reverse Graphs

Book:C Plus Plus Programming Language

Source: C Plus Plus Programming Language

“While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.”

Made Alive Irs

Book:More Wealth Without Risk

Source: More Wealth Without Risk

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