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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"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."
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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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"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."
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"Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."
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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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"In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good."
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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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"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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"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
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"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate."
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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
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"When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last."
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"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."
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"Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly."
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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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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"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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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
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"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."
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"Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants."
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"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
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"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience."
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"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
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