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"My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology."
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"While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of addiction. If, however, we succeed in impeding mobiles' unlimited rule, we may be able to relish the fragrance of the 'moment' but also sense the vital spark and spirit of "otherness. ['Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me']"

"What will happen if we go to 0 day?...Everything has been wipe out from the technology?"

"Windows 10 on both an old 2011 upgraded computer and a new 2016 computer was an excruciating experience."

"Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!"

"After two months of horrible computer problems, I had concluded that the free Windows 10 installation was an unreliable lobotomized operating system as compared to Windows 7 on a 2011 HP G72-B50US laptop computer."

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."

"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."
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"Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research."


"Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts."


"Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work."


"While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together."


"My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives."


"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."


"The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature."


"The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees."


"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community."
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