"My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine."

-- Donald Knuth

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“Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.”
“I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.”

Source : Speech at the University of Oregon, 2004.
“Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off."”
“However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.”
“We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.”
“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”
“Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.”

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