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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."

"The computer is a moron."

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell."

"Love is love's reward."

"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."

"Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it."

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

"We understand that you can't transform people who don't have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesn't work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out."

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"Education is the transmission of civilization."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

"Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

"You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in."

"Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs."

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."