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"Just because we can, doesn't mean we should."
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" Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. "
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"Set out to correct the world's wrongs and you'll almost certainly wind up adding to them."
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A good manager doesn't fire people. He hires people and inspires people.
People, Ryan.
And people will never go out of business.
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I will not always tell you what you want to hear, but rather tell you what you need to know.
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"You can't always get what you want," but as it turns out "if you try sometimes you get what you need."
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
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" In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed. "
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It is possible to believe in something and still fail to live up to it.
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All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to say It's a business."
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" The World is not kind to idealists. Those who fight the good fight don't always win. "
" The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. "
" Never give up, never surrender "
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"The higher up you go, the harder it gets to tell the good guys from the bad."
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" Concentrate on what cannot lie. The evidence. "
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" Everybody lies. "
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We are who people think we are.
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The The Future is Worth Fighting For
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" We created the world we think you would wished for us "
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"Great politicians are supposed to inspire people, not just be better then the alternative."
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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- What do you want?
- I'm trying to figure out how you could kill a man, how you could kill a fellow scientist to steal his work.
- Is that why you think I killed Dr. Hoke for the money?
- You weren't jealous of his accomplishments.
- His accomplishments, is that what you call them? I grew up in West Oakland. Anyone I grew up with who isn't dead or in prison is flipping burgers or driving a truck. And it's not too difficult to guess what Dr. Hoke's formula would have said about putting a computer lab in my high school. That computer lab saved my life, and next year, it's gonna save somebody else's.
- And killing Dr. Hoke accomplishes that? You think it stops there?
- In the last century, the Nazis used the theory of eugenics to stop the poor from reproducing. Eventually, they justified just killing the sick ones.
- You can't compare that to this.
- Actually, that's a perfect comparison, because what Jonas was doing was taking away a person's chance at life. It's taking away someone's hope. And I did what I had to do to stop that before it started.
- That makes you a murderer.
- Don't you ever wonder about your own work?
- What about my work?
- Well, you consult for the NSA, don't you? of course you do. So you're gonna tell me that everything you do will be used for good all the time?
- What's your point?
- You're asking me how I'm gonna live with myself. Look in the mirror. Ask yourself the same question.
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- Jonas Hoke's last hurdle.
- Oh, yes, his equation seeking to predict a person's chance at success.
- He never got to finish it. I thought maybe I'd give it a shot myself.
- Why? To what end? This work is just a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- What do you mean?
- Well... Charles, if we use numbers to choose who among us gets opportunity, then by definition, those we haven't chosen don't. That's not science. Well, it's not good science. It's like, every year college football chooses a national champion, but they use computers to determine which two teams play for the title. And every year, invariably, some team gets left off that believes, well, it could have won the game on the field if it had just been given the chance.
- I've always believed that it was my duty to... develop mathematical tools, and someone else's to use them wisely. Could I have been wrong?
- The consequence of our understanding subatomic particles was a horrible bomb that transformed the world we live in and a source of energy, the basis of life-saving techniques, and an indispensable scientific tool. Science... you know, science, not this, but real science, is discovery, Charles. It's not invention. The truths are there, whether we find them or not.
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- "In your own words, the difference between ethics and morals."
- Well, the ethical man knows he shouldn't cheat on his wife, whereas the moral man actually wouldn't.
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- May I ask you a question?
- That is a question. Would you like to ask me another one?
- Do you routinely use off-color language as part of your business lexicon?
- Sometimes off-color language is the most efficient way to convey an idea.
...As in, "get the fuck away from my cubicle."
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