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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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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
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"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room."
"I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it."
"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that."
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