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"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.“
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"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."
-Ed Turner
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"Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas."
-Jim Rash
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"Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously."
-Aaron Swartz
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"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
-Jim Balsillie
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"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
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"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space."
-Jack Schmitt
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