"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."

-- Wietse Venema

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“Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.443
“Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.”
“Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

Source : Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”
“I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.”

Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.
“A childâ€™s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.”
“In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."”
“... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.”
“In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.”

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