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Quote Origin: The Hottest New Programming Language Is English (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by jyunwai 6 months ago | past
Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019) (quoteinvestigator.com)
160 points by squircle 6 months ago | past | 162 comments
Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough (quoteinvestigator.com)
276 points by sohkamyung 7 months ago | past | 131 comments
Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by jyunwai 7 months ago | past
Television? No Good Will Come of This Device. Word Is Half Greek and Half Latin (2020) (quoteinvestigator.com)
3 points by Bluestein 8 months ago | past
Origin: I'd Rather Have a Free Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by squircle 10 months ago | past | 2 comments
I Would Rather Be Governed by the First 2k People (2017) (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by Tomte on May 5, 2024 | past | 1 comment
It's Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future (2013) (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by airstrike on Feb 18, 2024 | past
We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by slow_typist on Aug 2, 2023 | past
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do? (quoteinvestigator.com)
177 points by mhb on June 27, 2023 | past | 200 comments
I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it (quoteinvestigator.com)
261 points by breck on Feb 26, 2023 | past | 767 comments
I Disapprove of What You Say, but Will Defend Your Right to Say It (2015) (quoteinvestigator.com)
16 points by jawns on Dec 25, 2022 | past | 10 comments
“News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising” (quoteinvestigator.com)
323 points by guerrilla on Dec 24, 2022 | past | 125 comments
Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Small Minds Discuss People (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by amadeuspagel on Dec 15, 2022 | past
“Nothing Is More Impotent Than an Unread Library” (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by sohkamyung on Aug 19, 2022 | past | 1 comment
When I Wrote It, Only God and I Knew the Meaning; Now God Alone Knows (quoteinvestigator.com)
3 points by bobbiechen on Aug 5, 2022 | past
A Lottery Is a Taxation Upon All the Fools in Creation (2017) (quoteinvestigator.com)
7 points by dredmorbius on July 30, 2022 | past
“I haven't failed! I’ve discovered a thousand ways that won’t work!” – Edison (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by hyperpallium2 on July 9, 2022 | past | 1 comment
He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot (2018) (quoteinvestigator.com)
4 points by idleproc on July 2, 2022 | past | 1 comment
I Believe the Market Is Going to Fluctuate (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by PaulHoule on May 11, 2022 | past
Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers (2011) (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by Tomte on April 18, 2022 | past
“Programming Is a Skill Best Acquired by Practice ... Rather Than from Books” (quoteinvestigator.com)
4 points by sohkamyung on March 21, 2022 | past
Abraham Lincoln's Axe (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by osigurdson on Dec 17, 2021 | past
Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers (2011) (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by Tomte on Aug 12, 2021 | past | 1 comment
Put All Your Eggs in One Basket, and Then Watch That Basket (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by sygma on June 12, 2021 | past
“Computer science is not about computers” (quoteinvestigator.com)
288 points by akakievich on May 30, 2021 | past | 277 comments
Quote Investigator: “It’s Easier to Ask Forgiveness Than to Get Permission” (quoteinvestigator.com)
3 points by human4fter4ll on April 11, 2021 | past | 1 comment
“I’d Put My Money on the Sun and Solar Energy” – Thomas Edison (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by wombatmobile on March 30, 2021 | past
Great Minds Discuss Ideas – origin and context (quoteinvestigator.com)
1 point by sturza on March 18, 2021 | past
The Greatest Shortcoming: Man’s Inability to Understand the Exponential Function (quoteinvestigator.com)
3 points by sohkamyung on Feb 2, 2021 | past | 1 comment

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