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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."
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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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"People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line."
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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
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"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
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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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"I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed."
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"This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it."
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"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
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"Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."
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"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."
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"People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it."
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"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
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"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
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"I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make."
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"Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
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"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
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"The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."
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"I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate."
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"I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today."
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