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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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