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"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!"
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"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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"There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."
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"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."
Life

"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
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