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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."
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"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
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"It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth."
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"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
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"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind."
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"There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for."
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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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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
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"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."
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"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
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"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."
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"As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up."
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"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
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"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
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"With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe."
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."
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"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."
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"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
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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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"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
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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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"Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself."
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"The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on."
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"With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds."
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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
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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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