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@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ On Life
 <p>
 "That which hinders your task is your task."
 
+<p>
+"Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
+<br>-- David Oyelowo
+
+<p>
+"Fast is relative to what you're driving."
+<br>-- Hurley Haywood
+
+<p>
+"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education 
+other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is 
+a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher---a 
+situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, 
+and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply 
+sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
+<br>-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
 <p>
 "For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
 <br>-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -147,6 +164,14 @@ orientation -- be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?"
 intelligent are full of doubt."
 <br>-- Bertrand Russell</p>
 
+<p>
+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people — and this is true 
+whether or not they are well-educated — is that intelligent people can 
+handle subtlety.  They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory 
+situations — in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious 
+when things seem overly straightforward."
+<br>-- Neal Stephenson, from The Diamond Age</p>
+
 <p>
 "People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be
 great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue -- this
@@ -289,6 +314,11 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
 <br>-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about <a href="http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/12/28/debian-philosophy-and-people/">Debian, Philosophy, and People</a>
 </p>
 
+<p>
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+<br>-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+</p>
+
 On Programming
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@@ -390,6 +420,11 @@ Things I've Said
 since it's really not clear to me that increasing my breast size would 
 increase my confidence, I didn't bother reading most of it."</p>
 
+<p>
+"The difference between Open Source and Free Software is that Free Software
+people know there's a difference, and Open Source people try to pretend
+there isn't."</pa>
+
 Things Said About Me
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