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People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
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There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
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Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
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The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
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Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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