Mark Wood

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"You gotta want it." - Bill Murray.
"Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood." - Bill Murray.
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero.
"Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood." - William Howard Taft.
"Never judge a stranger by his clothes." - Zachary Taylor.
"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion." - Franklin Pierce.
"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest." - William McKinley.
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." - George H. W. Bush.
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy.
"Facts are stubborn things" - John Adams.
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - Ozzy Osborne
“I wish I was a pirate sailing under my own flag. Running for no reason and no reason to turn back. Salt and rum on my tongue, sails tattered and torn, laughing in the devil’s face, riding out a storm.” ????? - Kenny Chesney
Hanlon's Razor is the adage: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever." - Carl Sagan.
"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set" - Lin Yutang.
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something,” says Thorin Oakenshield in J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy novel The Hobbit. “You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
"Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing." - Nikola Tesla.
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” - Nelson Mandela.
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we CAN imagine" - J.B.S. Haldane.
"[C++] it really is a crap language" - Linus Torvalds.
"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria" - Friedrich Nietzsche.
"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride." - Anthony Bourdain.
"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
"Normal humans do not usually follow multiple wads of oozing cheese melted over potatoes with a molten pot of more cheese. But we are no ordinary men. We are titans. We are centurions of dairy products." - Anthony Bourdain.
"It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it." - Anthony Bourdain
"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn." - Anthony Bourdain.
"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown." - Anthony Bourdain.
"Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes." - David J. Wheeler.
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." - Bjarne Stroustrup (Designer of C++).

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