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Gordon Gould

"The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser."

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Akshay Vasu

"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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Akshay Vasu

"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."

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Akshay Vasu

"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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Akshay Vasu

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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Akshay Vasu

"People are essentially red meat. They are."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."

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Akshay Vasu

"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

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Akshay Vasu

"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."

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Gordon Gould
"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen."

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Gordon Gould
"The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser."

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Gordon Gould
"There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance."

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Gordon Gould
"That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics."

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Gordon Gould
"Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different ."

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Gordon Gould
"I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now."

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