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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Grateful

“I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.”

Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Funny

“If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.”

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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Determined

“What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.”

Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Courageous

“As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.”

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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Adventurous

“In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.”

Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Spiritual

“There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.”

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Thomas Lewis Physicist
Philosophical

“I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.”

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Thomas Mann Novelist
Creative

“He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.”

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Scott Simon Journalist
Optimistic

“As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.”

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Scott Simon Journalist
Philosophical

“In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own.”

Scott Simon Journalist
Spiritual

“Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.”

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Scott Walker Politician
Creative

“Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.”

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Scott Walker Politician
Courageous

“But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.”

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Scott Walker Politician
Funny

“I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.”

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Scott Walker Politician
Creative

“Matching sounds in your head is made a lot easier with all the technology. It is the nonelectronic noises that are challenging, as you have to find ways of communicating those to the people you're working with.”

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Scott Thompson Business Executive
Thoughtful

“People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.”

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Scott Thompson Business Executive
Philosophical

“This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.”

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Scott Walker Politician
Optimistic

“In Wisconsin, we understand people create jobs, not the government. Those who choose to employ - be it one or many - are to be appreciated and encouraged, so as to prosper and increase employment for others in the future.”