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“If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.”
“The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.”
“In countries like India or China, a Steve Jobs will never come around. The fundamentals aren't there - there's this feudal hierarchy.”
“The hatred and the vitriol against Donald Trump has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It has to do with the fact that the academic priesthood lost control of what they call quote-unquote 'ordinary rednecks' - that they're stupid, they don't understand. The fact is, those people actually understand a lot.”
“Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.”
“Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.”
“I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.”
“On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.”
“I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.”
“In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.”
“Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on the battlefield. It works well for catastrophic situations, but it is absolutely ignorant about prevention and lifestyle.”