People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy… - Erik Naggum

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People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millennia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

Erik Naggum

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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