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This is nothing new —you could view this as a counter-strike against new— but I just need to say that I love quotation collections, especially those by Michael and Andrew. It seems that however depressed I might be about some thing, I just need skim through few quotes from such a collection and I can't but laugh. It brings some mysterious joy into my heart. It might not make a permanent effect, but is a relief nevertheless.

What is also puzzling is the fact that I get the most pleasure out of cynical and rude quotes like this:

This is not to say C++ = bad, Lisp = good. It's to say C++ = bad irrespective of everything else.

In reality, that is of course full of crap.

And, I shouldn't probably admit this but here it goes, I even like some real harsh quotes like this:

The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism.

In reality, no one would of course want that.

And I finally, just a plain sensible wisdom from our beloved Fredrik:

I mean, just take a look at Joe Strout's brilliant little "python for beginners" page. Replace all print-statements with sys.stdout.write( string.join(map(str, args)) + "\n") and you surely won't get any new beginners. And That Would Be A Very Bad Thing.

In reality, that is of course true.