"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

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"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

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"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science."

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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

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"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."

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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."

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