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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.
Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop read more
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
The trodden path is the safest.
The trodden path is the safest.
