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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#day #decided #development #four #i

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#better #better person #every #i #morning

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#being #capable #facts #knowledge #law

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#long #objects #others #relations #remain

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#elegance #feeling #gives #indeed #solution

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that. ↗

— John Poindexter

#flow #ideal #information #realized #uncontrolled

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal. ↗

— John Poindexter

#awareness #believes #could #ever #goal

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue. ↗

— John Poindexter

#being used #data #foreign #issue #privacy

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas. ↗

— John Poindexter

#good #good ideas #ideas #make #possible

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#be careful #behave #careful #carry #ever