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If he could go farther in his comprehension and realize that God and man and the oak and the atom are just One, and that all these are thinking out the divine Idea, then would he be close to the door of the Holy of Holies.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
She needed to ask them the big questions. She had always believed that intelligence was the galaxy’s great jewel and its shine would be unmistakable wherever you found it. Alien or Earth-born or artificial, there would come a moment when your perspective flipped and you recognized the I across from you. And yet here were these birds who could perform all manner of complicated tricks, but she could meet the gaze of Gethli or Gothi and see only her own reflection.
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
We want to structure our systems so that we muck with as little as possible when we update them with new or changed features. In an ideal system, we incorporate new features by extending the system, not by making modifications to existing code.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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