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• «[Twitter] is too annoying, because people can answer back.» Chris Lowe
• «I was dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and never suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.» Mark Twain
• «Anche l'avventuriero più spinto muore dove gli può capitare e neanche tanto convinto.» Giorgio Gaber
• «When a cheetah chases a herd of gazelles, it may be more important for an individual gazelle to outrun the slowest member of the herd than to outrun the cheetah.» Richard Dawkins
• «I admire its purity. A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.» Ash, about the alien
• «se penso a come ho speso male il mio tempo che non tornerà, non ritornerà più.» Franco Battiato
• «Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.» Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• «For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.» Richard Feynman
• «The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.» Richard Dawkins, The selfish gene
• «What I cannot create, I do not understand.» Richard Feynman
• «Beautiful tunes, intelligent lyrics, and all my favourite chords.» Trevor Horn
• «When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there.» Yiddish Proverb
• «Si sta come, d'autunno, sugli alberi, le foglie.» Giuseppe Ungaretti
• «Haskell is the only programming language where the last thing you learn is how to print "Hello, World".» Giuseppe Castagna
• «Io non mi sento italiano, ma per fortuna o purtroppo, lo sono.» Giorgio Gaber
• «Win, lose, what's the difference?» Manny
• «I have to find the will to carry on!» Freddie Mercury
• «SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.» Philip Greenspun
• «...also, if you use ST you know the code is just using mutable variables, rather than formatting your hard drive.» unknown on #haskell
• «Ubuntu, an ancient African word meaning "I can't configure Debian".» ricky_clarkson on #haskell
• «The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.» Richard Dawkins
• «Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.» William of Ockham
• «There is a silence where hath been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be. In the cold grave--under the deep, deep, sea.» Thomas Hood
• «Beyond 40 degrees south there is no law. Beyond 50 degrees south there is no God.» 19th century whaler's saying
• «Oh dear...» Benton Fraser
• «It's easier to think you're in love than it is to accept that you're alone.» Benton Fraser
• «The people realized that the caribou and the wolf were one. For although the caribou feeds the wolf, it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.» Benton Fraser
• «It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.» Carl Sagan
• «Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.» Carl Sagan
• «When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.» Carl Sagan
• «Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.» Carl Sagan
• «It's true / I have little to offer to you / only love» Tennant & Lowe
• «The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.» Carl Sagan
• «The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.» Richard Dawkins
• «It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.» Carl Sagan
• «By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.» Richard Dawkins
• «Di ritorno dall'altra parte del mare e dal cielo / l'Europa la potresti abbracciare davvero e invece / coltivi ancora i tuoi dolori, per tenerli con te.» Mia Martini, Danza

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• Noam Chomsky
• Richard Dawkins
• Richard Feynman
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Alan Kay
• Simon Peyton Jones
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Piergiorgio Odifreddi
• Carl Sagan

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