"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, " he said in February 2000, in a rare public appearance.
Whales are very important but sharks are more fundamental to the survival of our oceans, healthy oceans than whales probably ever will be.
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Knowledge of any skills other than those of the technological elite will become a redundant concept because all the information we will ever need will be instantly available to us all, and because intelligent machines will be able to undertake almost any task better and more quickly that we can ourselves.
Dr Nahamoo says he doubts that call centres will ever be completely automated, because there will always be some queries that demand human intervention.
That raises the question of whether a technology that outlived even its inventor's expectations will ever be supplanted, or whether it will continue to be upgraded indefinitely.
"So for the first time ever I will be out of contract in the summer, " he said.
Sports minister Gabriel Namulambe said the country's biggest-ever arena will be ready before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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But amid the uncertainty, one thing is clear: GM, more than ever, will be counting on its financing arm to pick up the slack.
An aircraft-leasing unit that was valuable to AIG when it had a high credit rating but has been a drag ever since will be offloaded, too.
One of the thorniest questions, as ever, will be territory: the Turkish Cypriots, who were a fifth of the population before 1974, have 37% of the land.
Two things are certain: no encyclopedia will ever be perfect, and we will never reach consensus on all Wikipedia articles.
The top 25% may be as good, as bright, as motivated as ever, and will likely be as successful as ever.
The biggest question that remains unanswered is whether players will ever be fully paid for the services they have and will henceforth render, with the knowledge that they are risking their long-term health and welfare every time they step foot onto a football field.
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It has to be the oil movie against which all oil movies will ever be judged.
Nothing was ever the same after Steve Jobs arrived on the planet and nothing will ever be the way it was before the day he departed.
As a matter of fact, free people and free enterprises trying to find ways to do things better are able to be more effective in bringing down the costs than the government will ever be.
None of us will ever be perfectly ethical all the time, and if we set ourselves tough rules we will soon get disheartened when we fail to keep to them.
Even so, Herman Van Rompuy - the official who will chair the summit - has said that "for the first time ever - there will be a real-terms cut compared to the current budget".
It is folly to believe that an offshore trust will protect domestic assets there is utterly no technical legal reason to believe that such will ever be the case, except in maybe the rarest of circumstances or against unsophisticated creditors (which will almost never include a Bankruptcy Trustee).
It will only ever be used in self-defence, and will never fight outside Swiss territory.
Women's voices might be louder than before, but will there ever be a female pope?
Some are the finest train journeys you will ever be lucky enough to take.
Batman reminds Superman that he is a better person than Batman will ever be.
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Which is why so few of my clients are, or will ever, be on Facebook.
You never think that your child's life will ever be hanging in the balance.
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He is not of the opinion that fake tan will ever be regarded as sophisticated.
Given all those challenges, whether the proposed market will ever be realized is far from clear.
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They are traces, rather than actual bosons, because no Higgs will ever be seen directly.
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