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		What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dennis Ritchie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Valerie Cruz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. Robert Horvitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edie Campbell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				T. C. Boyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Wagner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				David O. Russell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chris Matthews 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Albert Einstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. H. Auden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dennis Ritchie