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We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
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When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.
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Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.


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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.


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I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
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If we're not compelled to gain a deeper understanding of good and evil, how can we make the world a better place? How can we find ourselves at the end of our lives and know that our lives were significant? Those things would be impossibilities.
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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
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If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.


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Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.
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I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Successful films are very dangerous things.


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My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
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Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.


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