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"If you run from technology, it will chase you."
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"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."
"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."
"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
"The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."
"Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking."
"If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude."
"Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation."
"Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder."
"We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different."
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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
"When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do."
"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, 'He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together.'Bill laughs. 'And that's the best way to learn, too."
"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."
"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."
"He'd no longer be a grade-motivated person. He'd be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no external pushing to learn. His push would come from inside. He'd be a free man. He wouldn't need a lot of discipline to shape him up. In fact, if the instructors assigned him were slacking on the job he would be likely to shape them up by asking rude questions. He'd be there to learn something, would be paying to learn something and they'd better come up with it.Motivation of this sort, once it catches hold, is a ferocious force..."
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