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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

The Road Ahead (1995)

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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