Believe nothing till it's officially denied.
— Cloud Atlas Hachette Essentials Edition Hachette Essentials by David Mitchell (Page 99)
...although sometimes the explanations are a bit hard to follow.
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
— Cloud Atlas Hachette Essentials Edition Hachette Essentials by David Mitchell (Page 82)
Whoever opined, 'Money can't buy you happiness,' obviously had far too much of the stuff.
— Cloud Atlas Hachette Essentials Edition Hachette Essentials by David Mitchell (Page 75 - 56)
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
— Cloud Atlas Hachette Essentials Edition Hachette Essentials by David Mitchell (Page 54)
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Attaboy rated Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky: 5 stars
Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
From the back cover:
The Man Who Sold The Moon
D.D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream …
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Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
From the back cover:
The Man Who Sold The Moon
D.D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream …
Attaboy reviewed Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton
"Haskell is a purely functional language that allows programmers to rapidly develop clear, concise, and …
Short and concise...
4 stars
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Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton
"Haskell is a purely functional language that allows programmers to rapidly develop clear, concise, and correct software. The language has …
Attaboy started reading Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
From the back cover:
The Man Who Sold The Moon
D.D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream …
Attaboy finished reading The UNIX-haters Handbook by Simson Garfinkel
The UNIX-haters Handbook by Simson Garfinkel
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by …
Attaboy reviewed Brüssel sehen und sterben by Nico Semsrott
Das Europaparlament – eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch …
Erschrenkend guter Einblick in das EU-Parlament
5 stars
Attaboy finished reading Brüssel sehen und sterben by Nico Semsrott
Brüssel sehen und sterben by Nico Semsrott
Das Europaparlament – eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch dazu ein sehr schlechter. Nico …
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Brüssel sehen und sterben by Nico Semsrott
Das Europaparlament – eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch dazu ein sehr schlechter. Nico …
Attaboy quoted The UNIX-haters Handbook by Simson Garfinkel
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. …
There's a wonderful Unix command called "strip," with which you force programs to remove all their debugging information. Unix programs (such as the Sun window system) are stripped as a matter of course, because all the debugging information takes up disk space and slows down the booting process. This means you can't use the debugger on them. But that's no loss; have you seen the Unix debugger? Really.
— The UNIX-haters Handbook by Simson Garfinkel (Page xxv - xxvi)