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"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."

"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."

"It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company."

"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world."

"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"

"Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me."
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"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II."


"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."


"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."


"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."


"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."


"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."


"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego."


"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."


"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed."
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