"[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch."

-- Margaret Case Harriman

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“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
“Don't let the brownies bite.”
“It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.”
“On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.”
“Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.”
“I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.”
“In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.”
“The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.”

Source : "An Interview with Gordon Moore". Ingenuity 5 (2), May 2000.

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