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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

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If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

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I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

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The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

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I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

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The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

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This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

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