Cipolla's words were a comic twist on the observation that society makes progress despite excessive pessimism and abundant stupidity.

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And this year, he upset 22nd seeded Florian Mayer and top 100 player Flavio Cipolla to reach the third round.

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"Penn Station is a disaster, " said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society that helped save Manhattan's now-glorious Grand Central Terminal from demolition.

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Professor Cipolla says Zoe is "the interface of the future", part of a trend towards abandoning the keyboard and mouse and finding new ways of relating to computers.

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It has been led by Professor Roberto Cipolla, who splits his time between the Department of Engineering in the centre of Cambridge and the Toshiba laboratory on the Science Park.

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Professor Cipolla told me that one of his biggest concerns these days was that his smartest graduate students were being lured away by big money offers from the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

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Dr Bjorn Stenger, once one of Professor Cipolla's doctoral students and now employed at the Toshiba lab, sees a number of uses: "Sending messages to your friends with your face on it, " he suggests.

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Britain's Murray had received treatment on court during his Wednesday win over Cipolla and decided not to risk it ahead of the final grand slam of the season at the U.S. Open later this month.

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"It would be a long and very complicated process because of the extraordinary significance of this landmark, " said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society of New York, a nonprofit advocate for historic preservation and urban planning.

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