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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."—T. H. White, The Once and Future King

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.—Steven Weinberg

Learning has always been something of a drug for me.—Tim O'Reilly

I love to learn! It's one of my favorite things to do. Life presents so many fascinating new ideas and facts. I find something deeply satisfying in getting closer to the truth behind the world I experience. The tragedy of my short life is that I will never get to learn everything that I want to. Or maybe that's not such a bad thing: there's always something else to learn.

Please join me in my torrid love affair with reality.

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