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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."

"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal."

"Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world."

"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."

"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here."

"Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it."

"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."

"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."

"Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin."

"A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997."

"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."

"But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."

"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school."
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