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No contest (1986)
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The real alternative to being Number One is not being Number Two; it is dispensing with rankings altogether
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
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Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct... and are experienced differently.
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How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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October 15, 1957
(age 67)
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