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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 perc

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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Its hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasnt yet been duplicated by technology. – Paul Graham

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Technology
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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do. – Paul Graham

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design
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In these troubled, uncertain times, we dont need more command and control we need better means to engage everyones intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. – David Letterman

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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded. – David M. Shoup

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. – G.C. Lichtenberg

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A womans guess is much more accurate than a mans certainty. – Rudyard Kipling

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