"The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into."
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"To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies."
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"Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly."
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"(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity."
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"Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains."
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"Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement."
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"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"
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"Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created."
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"The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people."
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"Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it."
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"[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."
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"In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future."
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"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating."
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"We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can."
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"Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives."
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"Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before."
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"Two years from now, spam will be solved."
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"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."
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"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."
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