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“start small, and think about the details.”
Linus Torvalds
“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”
Oscar Wilde
,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To a great mind, nothing is little”
Arthur Conan Doyle
,
A Study in Scarlet
“Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.”
Heraclitus
,
On Nature
“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.”
Ian Fleming
,
Casino Royale
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything….”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
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