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"If you run from technology, it will chase you."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
"The future belongs to those who innovate."
"An idea is like a spark in the dark " it makes everything brighter."
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."
"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."
"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?'"
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
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"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
"The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
"The title of this Chautauqua is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' not 'Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing,' and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the 'spirit of the valley,' not the mountaintop. The only Zen you fin on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
"This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything."
"It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says."
"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."
"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."
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