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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."

"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."

"The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise."

"Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook."
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"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."

"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
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