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"When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research."

"What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?"

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

"If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener."

"I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world."

"Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?"

"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."

"Sometimes questions are more important than answers."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films."

"Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else."

"The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell."

"Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned."

"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars."

"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."

"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate..."

"Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth."

"A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning."

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."

"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."