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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"Life experience is the new work experience."

"Having a job is being busy."

"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."

"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."

"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."

"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."

"One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures."
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