"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care."

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"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care."

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"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention."

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"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed."

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"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time."

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"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

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"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

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"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."

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"Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections."

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"People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line."

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"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."

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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

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"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

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"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."

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"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."

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"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

Creighton Abrams, American Soldier

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