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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you."

"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot."

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."

"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."

"When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority."
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"The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5."


"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go."


"They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive."


"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes."


"It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort."


"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."


"It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods."


"Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time."


"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers."
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