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I'm slogging through a couple of books at work. One of them is merely OK as a tech book, but it has nice chapter epigraphs :-)

1	The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.	Confucius
2	A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.	Frank Herbert
3	In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.	Jon Postel
4	You must unlearn what you have learned.	Yoda
5	When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.	Buckminster Fuller
6	Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.	Ralph Jackson
7	I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.	Richard Feynman
8	A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.	Boris Beizer
9	The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.	John von Neumann
10	A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.	Jerry Seinfield
11	Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.	Robert Byrne