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• You ivory tower intellectuals must not lose touch with the world of industrial growth and hard currency.
  It is all very well and good to pursue these high-minded scientific theories, but research grants are expensive and you must justify your existence by providing not only knowledge, but concrete and profitable applications as well....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original.
  It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist....
• Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth.
  No gradual evolution from previous economic systems is possible, because there IS no previous economic system....
• Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future.
  By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright?...
• Bravo! Walk away from it. Now it belongs to the ages.
  [to next student] You! Not another stroke! Oh well, maybe one more, that's it!...
• When you transcend the medium, you have achieved art. -- Solomon Sho
• We estimate that during the next mission century most of Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and other orbital facilities.
  Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes....