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The quotes

The Zen of Python (from the output of "import this")

• Beautiful is better than ugly.
  Explicit is better than implicit.
  Simple is better than complex.
  Complex is better than complicated.
  Flat is better than nested.
  Sparse is better than dense.
  Readability counts.
  Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
  Although practicality beats purity.
  Errors should never pass silently.
  Unless explicitly silenced.
  In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
  Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
  Now is better than never.
  Although never is often better than *right* now.
  If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
  If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
  Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
  • Tim Peters

Panic:

• When in danger,
  When in doubt,
  Run in circles
  Scream and shout!
  • Anonymous U.S. military saying, e.g. Infantry Journal, Vol. 35, (1929), p. 369.
  • Variant: When in danger or in doubt, Run in circles, scream and shout.
    • Popularized in Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (1951), which describes it as an ancient adage.

Ambrose Bierce#The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

q:Fight Club (novel):

• You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.
• This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
• Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
• The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. The second rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
• Only after disaster can we be resurrected. "It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything."
• We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption. Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.
• You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
• "We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll all be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us."