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    It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.

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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.

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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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no read more

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

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The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.

What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.

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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

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