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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Nasihat

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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

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Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Kehidupan

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Kehidupan

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Kehidupan

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Kehidupan

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

Kehidupan

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Kehidupan

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Life is wasted on the living.

Kehidupan

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Kehidupan

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Kehidupan

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Kehidupan

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Kehidupan

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“The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Kehidupan

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“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

Kehidupan

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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

Kehidupan

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Kehidupan

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“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Kehidupan