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"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
"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."
"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."
"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
"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."
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"Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."
"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."
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