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Birth : March 11, 1952

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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