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    Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.

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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the read more

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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain read more

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If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

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...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one read more

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