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Marcus Tomlinson

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Marcus Tomlinson is a software engineer and author with well over a decade’s experience in both closed- and open-source, cross-platform software development.

Immediately following his university career, Marcus landed his first job at Africa's leading manufacturer of electronic security products: IDS, where at the age of 21, he co-created a modular test jig system to help the company keep up with its rapidly growing product demand (A system that is still in effect today).

At 25, he went on to land his first senior role at the world's largest supplier of military and mining simulators: ThoroughTec, making him the youngest employee to hold the position. During his time there, Marcus completely overhauled the company's internal audio engine, as w
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“Albert Ellis: “The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour”. Apart”
Marcus Tomlinson, How to Become an Expert Software Engineer (and Get Any Job You Want): A Programmer’s Guide to the Secret Art of Free and Open Source Software Development

“Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
George Orwell, 1984

“It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.”
George Orwell, Burmese Days

“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“I can see the war that’s coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.”
George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
Nelson Mandela

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