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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
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"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
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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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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
Hope,
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
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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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"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."
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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it."
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"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
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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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"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
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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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"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."
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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
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"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
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"We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily."
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"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."
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"Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is."
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"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."
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"Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin."
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"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."
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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
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"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
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"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."
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"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."
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"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."
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"If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false."
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"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
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