"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“I enjoy the quiet life.”
“Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.”
“Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
“And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.”
“I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.”
“Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.”

Source : Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)
“I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.”
“Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.”

Source : "The Management Team While Building Product: Keep It Small" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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