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Quotes by Inventor
"This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon."
56
"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
56
"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."
55
"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
54
"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
54
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
53
"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."
53
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
52
"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
52
"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school."
51
"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."
51
"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."
51
"Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development."
51
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
50
"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
50
"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
49
"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."
49
"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
49
"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."
49
"The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory."
49
"I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed."
49
"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
48
"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
48
"Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly."
48
"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."
48
"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."
47
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
47
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
47
"There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for."
47
"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."
47
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
46
"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
46
"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."
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