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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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"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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."

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

"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."

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

"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
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