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Quotes by Inventor
"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life."
208
"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."
190
"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."
178
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
158
"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."
152
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."
130
"Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930."
128
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
127
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
Hope,
121
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."
117
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
97
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
82
"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
81
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."
79
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
78
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
78
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
77
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
76
"There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things."
72
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
72
"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
70
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
70
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
67
"I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."
66
"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
66
"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
66
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
65
"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
64
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."
62
"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."
61
"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
61
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
59
"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
58
"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
57
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
57
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