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Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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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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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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