People who are more than casually interested

“People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.”

— Donald Knuth

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Category: computers
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Nothing separates the generations more than music.

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

— Bill Cosby

Author: Bill Cosby
Category: music
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When the Nobel award came my way,

“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.”

— Amartya Sen

Author: Amartya Sen
Category: health
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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have

“Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.”

— David Ricardo

Author: David Ricardo
Category: finance
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