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Quotes by Inventor
"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."
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"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."
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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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"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
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"I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education."
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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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"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
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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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"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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"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
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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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"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."
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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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"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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"There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration."
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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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"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title."
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."
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