"I'm passionate about pleasing people."

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Source : "Michael Mina's magic touch" by Stacy Finz, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2008.

Michael Mina

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“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.”
“I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.”
“It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.48, Macmillan
“I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.”
“Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.”

Source : Extract from interview with themes.org, www.jwz.org. 1998.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.”

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