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The Most Important Thing About Power Is To Make Sure You Don't Have To Use It.

I Submit To You That When In Each Man The Dream Of Personal Greatness Dies, Democracy Loses The Real Source Of Its Future Strength.

Don't Undertake A Project Unless It Is Manifestly Important And Nearly Impossible.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious. This Is True Not Only For Those Who Have Not Previously Been Acquainted With The Problem, But Also For Those Who Have Worked Over It For Years.