"I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering."

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Walter Isaacson

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“We rise in glory as we sink in pride.”
“He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.”
“Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If its a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.”
“I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.”
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”

Source : "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.
“If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.”
“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.”
“Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us”

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