Atakan Varol's Favorite Quotes: 

All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

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Computer Science is no more about computers
than astronomy is about telescopes.
- E. W. Dijkstra

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Life is just a lost war against entropy.
- Anonymous (or maybe me)

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Statistics are like bikinis.
What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.
- Aaron Levenstein

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Live as if your were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.

 - Gandhi

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I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.
 - Confucius

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I call architecture frozen music.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

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"It seems to me that while other cities are mortal,

  this one will endure as long as there are men on Earth."

- Petrus Gyllius (French traveler, his words regarding Istanbul)

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Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.

 - Albert Einstein

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not

when there is nothing left to add,

but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“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

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Metaphysica, Aristotle

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus

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"Calismadan, ogrenmeden, yorulmadan rahat yasamanin yollarini aramayi
aliskanlik haline getirmis milletler; evvela haysiyetlerini, sonra
hurriyetlerini ve daha sonra da istikballerini kaybetmeye mahkumdurlar."

- Mustafa Kemal ATATURK