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"I really wanted to do research. That has never changed."
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Amar Bose
"I really wanted to do research. That has never changed."
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"The real secret of success is enthusiasm."
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Walter Chrysler
"The real secret of success is enthusiasm."
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"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
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Erno Rubik
"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
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"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
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Alexander Graham Bell
"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
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"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
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Charles Kettering
"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
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"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
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"Marketing is what you do when your product is no good."
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Edwin Land
"Marketing is what you do when your product is no good."
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"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead."
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"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it."
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Josiah Warren
"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it."
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
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Orville Wright
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
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"There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand."
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Charles Kettering
"There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand."
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"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."
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Pierre Beaumarchais
"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."
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"The game-playing market today is pretty sizable."
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John Romero
"The game-playing market today is pretty sizable."
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"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."
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Orville Wright
"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."
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"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."
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Charles Kettering
"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."
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"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
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Thomas A. Edison
"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
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"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
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Charles Kettering
"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
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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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Tim Berners Lee
"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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Wilson Greatbatch
"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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"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."
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Walter Chrysler
"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."
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"Don't fight forces, use them."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"Don't fight forces, use them."
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"God is a verb, not a noun."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"God is a verb, not a noun."
God,
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"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
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Alexander Graham Bell
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
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"In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before."
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"Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years."
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"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
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Charles Kettering
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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Thomas A. Edison
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
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William Thomas Green Morton
"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
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"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools."
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Robert Moog
"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools."
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"The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996."
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Robert Metcalfe
"The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996."
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"One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion."
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Eli Whitney
"One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion."
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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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R. Buckminster Fuller
"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 biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
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Charles Kettering
"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
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"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
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"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
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Charles Kettering
"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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"You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school."
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Eli Whitney
"You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school."
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"I'm forming a charitable institution for education."
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Amar Bose
"I'm forming a charitable institution for education."
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"As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited."
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Elisha Gray
"As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited."
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"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."
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Josiah Warren
"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."
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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
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Charles Kettering
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
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"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
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Charles Kettering
"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
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"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
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Thomas A. Edison
"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
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"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
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Isambard K. Brunel
"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."
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Charles Kettering
"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."
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"A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps."
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Charles Goodyear
"A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps."
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"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there."
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Wilson Greatbatch
"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there."
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"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
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"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."
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David Sarnoff
"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."
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