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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."
"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
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"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
"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."
"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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