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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"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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"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
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"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."
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"I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing."
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"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
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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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"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."
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"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."
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"Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself."
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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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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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
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"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
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"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
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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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"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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"There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males."
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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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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
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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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"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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"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
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"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
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"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience."
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"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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