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"Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one."

"The ordinary are here to fit into the world, the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds."

"Great minds birth great ideas. Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas. Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas."

"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."

"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."

"Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had."

"Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked."

"Don't always complain the way isn't there. If you can't find the way, create it."

"Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are."

"Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life."
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"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."

"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."

"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

"Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!"

"SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off."
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