I'll have to add some of these to my list of quotes that emacs greets me with. Current list:<p><pre><code> (defvar scratch-quotes
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson"
"Look, I made a hat...where there never was a hat. - Finishing the hat, Sondheim"
"Just fucking figure it out."
"The universe is not here to please you. - Charles Murtaugh"
"Your life is your life. The gods await to delight in you. - Bukowski"
"Join the force and get a pension. - Salesman"
"Beware of things that are fun to argue. - Eliezer Yudkowsky"
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the result. - Winston Churchill"
"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. - John Von Neumann"
"Writing program code is a good way of debugging your thinking. - Bill Venables"
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. - Joe Biden quoting his father"
"Most haystacks do not even have a needle. - Lorenzo"
"Experiment and theory often show remarkable agreement when performed in the same laboratory. - Daniel Bershader"
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. - George Eliot"
"It is astonishing what foolish things a man thinking alone can come temporarily to believe. - Keynes"
"The purpose of computing is Insight, not numbers. - Richard Hamming"
"Work on stuff that matters. - Tim O'Reilly"
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. - Teller"
"You have to say something. It can't all be technique. - Woody Allen (on great actors)"
;; Paraphrased from a HN comment
"Perfectionism is a failure to optimize across a complex goal space, settling, instead, on ignoring the difficult prioritisation problem in favor of over-optimizing a limited set of tangible and easily-defined goals over longer-run priorities"
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