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    May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.

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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

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

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

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Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.

Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.

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I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told read more

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify read more

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order read more

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.

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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things read more

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who read more

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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