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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."
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"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."
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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
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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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"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers."
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"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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"The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory."
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"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."
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"I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with."
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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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"But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."
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"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
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"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
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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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"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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"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."
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"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once."
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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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"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
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"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
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"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
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"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job."
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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
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