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— George Patton, George Patton quotes posted at 37Signals ¶“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
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— Kanan Makiya, What was the moral alternative to removing Saddam Hussein? - By Kanan Makiya - Slate Magazine ¶“I know that I got many things wrong in the run-up to the 2003 war, but, in spite of everything, I still do not know how to regret wanting to knock down the walls of the great concentration camp that was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”
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— Jimmy Buffet, quoted in an open letter to Jeff Atwood ¶“If you decide to run with the ball, just count on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of you, but never forget how much fun it is just to be able to run with the ball.”
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— Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne ¶“A woman’s love is like the morning dew. It’s as apt to land on a horse turd as it is a rose.”
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— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Blog Rants: Portrait of a N00b ¶“Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try to force people to model everything. Programmers hate that. These languages will never, ever enjoy any substantial commercial success, for the exact same reason the Semantic Web is a failure. You can’t force people to provide metadata for everything they do. They’ll hate you.”