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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
Vinton Cerf
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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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