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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power."
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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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"There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males."
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"Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?"
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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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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
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"Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself."
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"History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise."
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"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
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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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"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."
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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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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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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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"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
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"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
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"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."
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"Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another."
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"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."
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
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"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."
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