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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
38
"Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it."
38
"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
38
"I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology."
38
"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
38
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
38
"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."
38
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
38
"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate."
38
"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."
38
"When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won."
37
"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
37
"Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself."
37
"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."
37
"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."
Will,
37
"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it."
37
"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."
37
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
37
"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."
37
"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."
37
"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."
37
"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."
37
"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."
37
"I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing."
36
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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