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  1. 'Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their mi…
  2. Architects of the Information Society (1999) - edited by with Simson L. Garfinkel
  3. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.'
  4. 'It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?'
  5. 'What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.'
  6. Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.
  7. In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual per…
  8. Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this a…

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