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"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
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"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
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"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
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"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
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"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking."
People
"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can."
God
"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
Idea
"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."
Life
"Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult."
People
"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
Danger
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
Capitalism
"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
Reason
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Work
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
Creativity
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