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Re:Why Sometimes I Hate Myself by 1wd on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @06:16AM (#8323783)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell
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Re:Why Sometimes I Hate Myself by icebraining on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @06:34AM (#8323814)
He actually probably never said that specific line. But he did write an essay called "In Praise Of Idleness": http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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Re:Why Sometimes I Hate Myself by ozh on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @07:16AM (#8323905)
Interesting backtracing of the origin of that quote: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
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Re:Why Sometimes I Hate Myself by 1wd on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:05PM (#8331393)
Thanks I did not know that. I found this quote and attribution in [0]. (Sadly there were many other errors in that book.)

[0] http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html

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