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First time caller, long time listener. I've enjoyed reading Wikipedia for many years now, and I figure it's time to get serious about giving back to this community.

In case you're wondering what the user name is all about -- it's the Golden ratio:

Favorite Quotes

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

— Emerson M. Pugh, The Biological Origin of Human Values

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

— Chinese proverb

Even a rose goes through a lot of dirt before it blossoms.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

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  The Entrepreneur's Barnstar
The Entrepreneur's Barnstar is given to recognize new editors who have made great strides to contribute to Wikipedia.
I, Quinxorin ,present this award to OnePt618 for a large quantity of edits and welcoming new users when you're still a new user yourself.
Quinxorin (talk) 03:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
  The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I warned you. You beat me at reverting vandalism again. So you get this barnstar. Keep up the good work ;) The Raptor Let's talk/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 02:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)