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"I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate."
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"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"
"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."
"Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception."
"It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them."
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"
"Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
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"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."
"I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people."
"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought."
"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."
"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."
"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care."
"Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile."
"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."
"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."
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