"If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems."

-- Alan Kay

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“The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.”
“We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September,”
“Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.”
“In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing. ... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.”
“I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off than if I never said anything, well, sorry but not sorry.”

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“There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't know our country. Our country is wicked, and the Christians are few. Just like they're few in other countries, they're few here. There may be many churches and there may be church buildings on every street corner and every corner in our cities across this country, but the true Christians are few.”
“Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.”
“The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable”

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