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There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

— Steve Ballmer, http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm

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It didn’t seem to him, though, on this morning in the Faraways, such an unfortunate thing, that kind of small-town determinism. True, he had himself clambered out of it as fast as he could and into the Great World seeking growing-room and air to breathe; but he had in fact languished in the city, not growing but shrinking over time into a strange form of invisibility.

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Like cinema, games will need to embrace the dynamics of failure, tragedy, comedy and romance. They will need to stop pandering to the player’s desire for mastery in favor of enhancing the player’s emotional and intellectual life.

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If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian nuclear power plant, then there’s no need for them to learn how to enrich.

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If anything, I think Microsoft tends to err on the side of having less groupthink and more cacophony than most other places.

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