Oscar's Updates en-US Wed, 14 May 2025 02:33:29 -0700 60 Oscar's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg UserQuote93183900 Wed, 14 May 2025 02:33:29 -0700 <![CDATA[Oscar Meyer liked a quote by Douglas Adams]]> /quotes/39828
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� I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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� Douglas Adams
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ReadStatus9404630855 Fri, 09 May 2025 04:19:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Oscar wants to read 'Practical Julia: A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds']]> /review/show/7555081681 Practical Julia by Lee Phillips Oscar wants to read Practical Julia: A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds by Lee Phillips
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UserQuote92912965 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:58:31 -0700 <![CDATA[Oscar Meyer liked a quote by Vincent van Gogh]]> /quotes/12739273
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� Fishermen know that the sea is dangerous
and the storm fearsome, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. They leave that wisdom to those to whom it appeals. When the storm comes - when night falls - what's worse: the danger or the fear of danger? Give me reality, the danger itself.
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� Vincent van Gogh
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UserQuote92901780 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:18:40 -0700 <![CDATA[Oscar Meyer liked a quote by Søren Kierkegaard]]> /quotes/20080
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� What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful. ...more � � Søren Kierkegaard
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ReadStatus9294261692 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:38:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Oscar wants to read 'The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained']]> /review/show/7478523389 The Science of Energy by Michael E. Wysession Oscar wants to read The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained by Michael E. Wysession
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