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It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this

number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
Lysander Spooner

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Jerry Saltz

My films are about embarrassment.
Alan Bennett

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
Katy Perry

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.
Miuccia Prada

My brother is really, really slow.
Usain Bolt

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.
Famke Janssen

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