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Quotes by Inventor


"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."


"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."


"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."

"I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with."

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."

"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."

"There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males."

"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?"


"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."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"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."


"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."

"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."

"History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise."

"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."


"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."

"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."

"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind."


"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."

"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."

"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."

"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
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