"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

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"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

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"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention."

Creativity, Ideas, Invention, Office

"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

Stars, Teenagers, Thinking

"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed."

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"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time."

Time, Thought, Energy, Running

"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

Fire, Inventions, Language

"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

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"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."

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"Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections."

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"People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line."

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"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."

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A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Charles A. Beard, American Historian

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"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

Omar N. Bradley, American Soldier

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"Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know."

William Johnson Cory, English Poet

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"We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs."

Jared Diamond, American Author

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"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."

George Eliot, British Author

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"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond."

Val Guest, British Director

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"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

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