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The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

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Thomas Watson, Jr.
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 14
Died: 1993
Died: December 31
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