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Quotes by Inventor
"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."
68
"Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development."
67
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
67
"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
65
"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
65
"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
64
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
64
"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."
64
"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
64
"The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory."
63
"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school."
62
"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."
62
"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."
62
"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
61
"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
61
"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
60
"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."
60
"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."
60
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
59
"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
59
"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
59
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
58
"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
58
"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."
58
"There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for."
58
"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."
58
"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
57
"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."
57
"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."
57
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
57
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
57
"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."
56
"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."
56
"The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996."
56
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
56
"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
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