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Quotes by Inventor
"Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."
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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 started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."
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"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
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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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"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."
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"Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time."
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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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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
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"The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996."
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"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."
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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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"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."
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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
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"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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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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"I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself."
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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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"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
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"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
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"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
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