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by ramses0 13 days ago
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903): "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/end-user.html

"""Master Foo turned to the end-user. “Tell me”, he inquired, “why do you seek the Way?”

“I am discontent with the software I see around me”, the end user replied. “It neither performs reliably nor pleases the eye and hand. Having heard that the Unix way, though difficult, is superior, I seek to cast aside all snares and delusions”."""