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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#come #find #finished #i #interesting

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#alone #athlete #center #coaches #doctors

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#basic #because #changed #does #just

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. ↗

— Diane Watson

#activities #constituency #deeds #duty #government

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#get #hackers #how #i #install

Linux is only free if your time has no value. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#linux #only #our time #time #value

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#i #linux #machine #maybe #next

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #because #i #need #regardless

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#however #i #linux #mostly #remotely