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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."

"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
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"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."

"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
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"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."

"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."
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