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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"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."

"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."

"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."

"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."

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

"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 certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."
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