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"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
"Life experience is the new work experience."
"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."
"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."
"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."
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"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."
"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."
"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."
"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."
"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."
"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."
"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
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