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title = "Random Quotes"
weight = 300

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tags = ["quotes", "graffiti", "education", "misery", "distributed systems",
"the day the earth stood still", "atheism", "religion", "following",
"regrets", "money", "perfection", "practice", "nerds", "totalitarianism",
"materialism", "god", "time", "privacy", "guests", "proverbs", "russian",
"incompetence"]
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> If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them end to
> end, they'd be a lot more comfortable.
-- "Graffiti in the Big Ten"

> "There is no education that is not political. An apolitical education is
> also political because it is purposely isolating."

> "People change and forget to tell each other."
-- a marquee at a fucking carpet cleaning store

> "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."

> "Preserve the old, but know the new."

> "Distributed Systems people do it loosely coupled."

> "Gort, klaatu nikto barada."
-- The Day the Earth Stood Still

> "Atheism and truth, 2 words 1 meaning."

> "Zisla's Law:
> If you're asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants."

> "Working here is like a pregnancy. After nine months you wish you hadn't
> come."

> "If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
-- Yiddish saying

> "When you go out to buy, don't show your silver."

> "If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?"

> "Freeing the nerds was what got us here"

> "Workers of the world, relax!"

> "Materialism: buying things we don't need with money we don't have to
> impress people that don't matter."

> The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply
> lack cognitive meaning.

> "Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space."

> Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations:
> Negative expectations yield negative results.
> Positive expectations yield negative results.

> "I’m being tracked by so many websites that if I get kidnapped, I expect to
> be rescued by a team of web developers rather than the police."
-- u/jaso151 on Reddit

> "Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina."
> [An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion]
-- Russian proverb

> "The dynamic I'm subjected to doesn't become less toxic just because I can
> take it."

> "Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it."

> "I suspect the people responsible are the kinds of men who get MBAs
> specifically to boss around people who are smarter than they are."

> "Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand."

> "If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your
> total incompetence."