America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
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Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural wholesome things that money can buy.
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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
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Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
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No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
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People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
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Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
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There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
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