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“motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.”
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“In year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo Sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion. The total value of goods and services produced by humankind in the year 1500 is estimated at $250 billion, in today's dollars. Nowadays the value of a year of human production is close to $60 trillion. In 1500 humanity consumed about 13 trillion calories of energy per day. Today, we consume 1,500 trillion calories a day. (Take a second look at those figures -- human population has increased fourteen-fold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)”
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“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.”
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“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”
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“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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