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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.”

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

“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

“The only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Life is wasted on the living.”

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

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

“Time is bunk.”