Friday, May 16, 2008, 07:05 PM - quoteFoo
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 07:16 PM - quoteFoo
"I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain its strength. 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be in reach of a central school in it."
-In a letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810
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Monday, February 4, 2008, 06:09 PM - quoteFoo
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008, 05:20 PM - quoteFoo
"Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."
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Monday, December 31, 2007, 06:06 PM - quoteFoo
"It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so"
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Monday, December 31, 2007, 12:58 PM - quoteFoo
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 12:31 PM - quoteFoo
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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Friday, December 14, 2007, 07:56 PM - quoteFoo
"I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
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Friday, December 14, 2007, 07:54 PM - quoteFoo
"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it."
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 06:11 PM - quoteFoo
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
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Monday, November 5, 2007, 12:48 PM - quoteFoo
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
-Speech given before the Commonwealth Club of California
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Monday, October 1, 2007, 02:06 AM - quoteFoo
The Mind commands the Body and it obeys.
The Mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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