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Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

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Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours. . . . no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.

Arrogant, Company, Gotten, Messages, Microsoft
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To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.

Drill, Expose, Fighting, Home, Kings, Rational

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Equal, Free Man, Freedom, Men

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

Done, Mean, Prepared, Stories, Time, Writing

The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

Differences, Know, Market, Places, Political, Thinking

Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS
2 days.

Improvements, Obsolete, Philosophy, Running, Wait, War
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