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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer.

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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

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Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in...

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The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

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Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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Getting a movie made (in Hollywood) is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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