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 * "In the 21st century, you can be anything you want as long as someone is willing to pay you to click a button."
 * "Those who cannot remember history are doomed to make youtube videos about it."
 * "Think of inflation as a system designed by experts which steals from poor people on behalf of the wealthy so they are protected from a financial collapse for like another 6 months before the final crash occurs anyway."
-* "If you don’t like how things are, just invent time travel and prevent yourself from being born."
+* "If you don’t like how things are, just invent time travel and prevent yourself from being born."
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+* “The really worrying thing about the apocalypse isn’t that it’s nigh. It’s that the specification keeps changing.”
+* “Always remember: the universe has a strict no-refund policy on unintended consequences.”
+* “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, automate the dazzling, containerise it, and charge per API call.”
+* “Program­mers don’t hate repetition; they merely prefer it to be performed at 3 GHz by something else.”
+* “Humanity’s killer app turned out to be the bug-report function.”
+* “The first commandment of security engineering: Thou shalt not covet another engineer’s threat model.”
+* “Civilisation advances by extending the number of important things we no longer bother to understand, until the power fails.”
+* “People say knowledge is power, but caches are what actually make the process O(1).”
+* “The nice thing about parallel universes is that every really bad idea only destroys most of them.”
+* “If you think free will is an illusion, try doing nothing for an entire afternoon and see how long the universe tolerates that.”
+* “Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from a denial-of-service attack on human attention.”
+* “There are three stages of learning a technology: (1) ‘Hello World’, (2) ‘Why won’t it work?’, (3) ‘I should never have taught it to work.’”
+* “Never summon a demon you can’t invoice.”
+* “History doesn’t repeat, but it does keep committing copy-paste errors.”
+* “All those in favour of realism should raise their probability distributions.”
+* “The best part about distributed systems is that, given enough latency, every node can experience being wrong first-hand.”
+* “‘Working as intended’ is the software equivalent of the doctor saying ‘well, the X-ray looks interesting.’”
+* “You can’t spell ‘inference’ without ‘fear’, ‘rein’, and at least one silent scream.”
+* “The AI alignment problem is basically asking your future god to pinky-promise.”
+* “Remember: the last thing to go extinct in any timeline is the meeting.”