It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

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Einstein in real life was not only a great politician and a great philosopher. He was also a great observer of the human comedy, with a robust sense of humor.

Freeman Dyson in The New York Review of Books, Einstein as a Jew and a Philosopher (7 May 2015)
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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

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