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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself."
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary."
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"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."
"The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration."
"There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them."
"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change."
"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."
"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."
"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
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