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"What we've got here is... Failure... To communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. Which, is the way he wants it... Well, he gets it. I don't like it... Anymore than you men."

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog.

"The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality."

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."