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Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity,… — Mikko Hypponen
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only… — Sendhil Mullainathan
Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for… — Yochai Benkler
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of… — Michael Specter
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from… — Noam Chomsky
It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can… — John Wells
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses,… — William H. McRaven
To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months. — William H. McRaven
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to… — Kurt Schrader
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way. — Terence Winter
The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important. — Hamadoun Toure
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a… — Gordon B. Hinckley
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism. — Virginia Postrel
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain.… — Thomas R. Insel
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all… — Cynthia P. Schneider
Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for… — Robert Zoellick
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the… — Thomas Perez
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of… — Joe Wurzelbacher

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