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• Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if…
• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
• In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the…
• The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often…
• Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.
• Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
• And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary…
• Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money…
• What man has done, man can aspire to do.
• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the…
• I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection…
• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words…

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