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"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."

"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."

"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."

"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."

"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."

"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."

"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."

"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
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