Paul Baran famous quotes
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I've... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.
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We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built.
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No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.
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The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'
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History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.
-- Paul Baran
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
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I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.
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