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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Writer
Kingston
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Glitches
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Computer
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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Knowing isn't doing doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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