{"id":7819,"date":"2004-08-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/19\/brainy-quotes\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"brainy-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/19\/brainy-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainy quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040811-brainy_quote_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever met someone who has a rich library of quotations in his or her head?  People like this are frequently heard saying phrases like &#8220;Benjamin Franklin once said&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;It was Jim Morrison who wrote&#8230;&#8221;.  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Well, these people either have a special kind of memory and read a lot or they spend a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/19\/brainy-quotes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brainy quotes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11983,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/02\/one-of-the-things-to-love-about-red-hat\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":0},"title":"One of the things to love about Red Hat","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Karsten Wade shares five reasons for which he loves working at Red Hat. \u00a0Not a reason on its own, but a part of one is this excellent quote: At this company, the technical people have a serious influence on adjusting the mindset of the very smart people we bring in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12694,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/presentation-is-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":1},"title":"Presentation is everything","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The following video is one of the excellent examples of how important the presentation is. \u00a0I've been told a billion times, and I've said it myself a few more, that nobody cares about the work you've done until it looks good. \u00a0Yes, sure you can get a few geeky friends\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/a9J1b3MqiX8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10347,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/16\/give-me-a-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":2},"title":"Give me a name","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the things that annoyes the hell out of me while blogging is a missing name. 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