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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."

"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."

"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

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"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."

"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
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