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"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."
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"There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand."
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Charles Kettering
"There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand."
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"At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help."
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Vinton Cerf
"At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help."
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"One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research."
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Amar Bose
"One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research."
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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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Robert Moog
"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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"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."
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Tim Berners Lee
"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."
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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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Wilbur Wright
"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."
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"I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with."
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Eli Whitney
"I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with."
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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
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Charles Kettering
"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
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"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
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Thomas A. Edison
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
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"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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"When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place."
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Wilson Greatbatch
"When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place."
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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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Gary Gygax
"There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males."
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"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion."
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Vinton Cerf
"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion."
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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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Erno Rubik
"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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"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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Tim Berners Lee
"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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"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
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Charles Kettering
"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
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"I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry."
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Pierre Beaumarchais
"I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry."
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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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R. Buckminster Fuller
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
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"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
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George Eastman
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
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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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Tim Berners Lee
"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."
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"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here."
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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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Orville Wright
"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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"We learned the value of research in World War II."
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Amar Bose
"We learned the value of research in World War II."
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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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Wilson Greatbatch
"History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise."
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"My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid."
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Charles Kettering
"My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid."
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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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Charles Kettering
"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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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
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Charles Kettering
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
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"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
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Thomas A. Edison
"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
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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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Tim Berners Lee
"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."
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"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
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"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center."
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Orville Wright
"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center."
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"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity."
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Thomas A. Edison
"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity."
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"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind."
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Isaac Pitman
"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind."
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"We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
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Charles Kettering
"We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
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"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."
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Robert Moog
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."
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"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
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Dean Kamen
"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
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"Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space."
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Vinton Cerf
"Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space."
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"People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well."
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Andy Hertzfeld
"People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well."
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"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
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Wilson Greatbatch
"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
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"The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve."
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David Sarnoff
"The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve."
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"We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them."
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Amar Bose
"We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them."
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"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
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Tim Berners Lee
"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
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"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
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Tim Berners Lee
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
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"In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last."
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John Romero
"In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last."
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"You push the button, we do the rest."
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George Eastman
"You push the button, we do the rest."
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"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
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Alexander Graham Bell
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
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"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
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Erno Rubik
"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
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"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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Ray Kurzweil
"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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