

“الخجل ينبع من توهمك لأهمية مبالغ فيها لنفسك .. أنت لست مهماً كما تعتقد .. لست مهماً على الإطلاق وليس هناك شخص متفرغ لمراقبة خلجاتك وأخطائك”
― زغازيغ
― زغازيغ

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning

“In distributed systems, suspicion, pessimism, and paranoia pay off.”
― Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
― Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed. Whatever be the soil, climate, or extent of territory of any particular nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must, in that particular situation, depend upon those two circumstances.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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