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Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?

Never let the sacrifice of others be for nothing by doing nothing.

Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.