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"If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches."

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights."

"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."

"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."

"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

"Actually, my artistic knowledge is so tiny it could fit into the brain of an art critic."

"Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away."

"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."

"The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years."

"Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza."

"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep."

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."

"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know."

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."