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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.


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ANTHONY D'ANGELO The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ...
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HARRY SHAPIRO Two people may become enemies when their ideas are the same.
VIKRANT PARSAI People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY These are very serious people...it's a very tough working environment here.
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FRANCIS MAUDE Never share rich ideas with poor minds,for they will only devalue them,because the ideas are too ric...
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