We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

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Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

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People think of education as something that they can finish.

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