"I think if we pull it off, it changes everything to do with our interaction with the living world, " says Drew Endy , a young MIT professor who is one of the company's co-founders.

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And perhaps more importantly, I wonder if he can pull it off with personal congruence, integrity and credibility.

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"I was naive to think a startup could pull it off, " says founder Ashar Aziz, who is now the chief technical officer of N1.

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I've never understood how some pianists pull it off.

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For no other reason than I think that it would be a very difficult deal to pull off.

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For one thing, I've begun to get a clue about how hard it is to pull off.

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And I think Mel Gibson and other celebrities have tried to pull that off, and it doesn't tend to work.

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"It takes someone of his outsize personality and--I mean this in the best sense of the word--of his ego to pull all of it off as grandly and efficiently as he does, " says NBC's Tom Brokaw, a guest in June.

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But like everyone else, I figured that despite all of my misgivings, after decades of success with this strategy, Oracle would pull it off yet again and become a dominant player in SaaS and the Cloud.

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That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off 10 times with the same thread -- than it does with a record like I ended up with.

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When I walked into bat I still felt that if things went our way we could pull off something special but they didn't and it became quite dark - we could hardly see anything.

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