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"I don't seek power and do not run around."
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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."

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

"Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time."

"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."

"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."

"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."

"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."

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