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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
attributed to Albert Einstein

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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson, although according to Wikipedia, he attributes it to his Princeton roommate, Jeff Goll

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No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks
Alice Cooper, title song of School’s Out, 1972.

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It has often been remarked that an educated man has probably forgotten most of the facts he acquired in school and university. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten..
B. F. Skinner, [...]

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wofgang von Goethe

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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
Often misattributed to Mark Twain.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988.

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Why, then ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Sc. II; Hamlet’s response to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who question Hamlet’s regard of Denmark as a prison - “We think not so, my lord.” The originator [...]

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