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Quotes by Inventor
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
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"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."
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"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
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"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
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"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
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"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."
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"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
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"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
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"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
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"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."
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"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."
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"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."
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"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
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"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
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"Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development."
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."
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"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
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"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title."
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself."
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"There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for."
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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
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"The reason a lot of people do ☆not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
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"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
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"When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power."
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"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."
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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
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"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."
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"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school."
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"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
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"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."
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"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."
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"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."
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