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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"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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"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."
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"At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations."
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"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."
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"We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour."
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"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."
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"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
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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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"I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education."
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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
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"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience."
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"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."
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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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"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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"There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration."
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"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."
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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 loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor."
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"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube."
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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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"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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"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
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"Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time."
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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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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
Gold,
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"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."
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"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
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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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