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All Quotes Collection
"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity."
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"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years."
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"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn."
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"And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time."
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"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."
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"Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century."
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"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy."
29
"It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem."
37
"We support President Truman's civil rights program."
50
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live."
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"We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane."
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"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
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"Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!"
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"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."
27
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
24
"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."
41
"That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day."
53
"It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to."
37
"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
42
"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
45
"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."
43
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
54
"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
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"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."
50
"Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen."
53
"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."
49
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
53
"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
42
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
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"Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive."
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"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
38
"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
39
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
42
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
Work,
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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
Want,
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"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."
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