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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
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Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle
