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Quotes by Inventor
"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."
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"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website."
34
"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."
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"Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
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"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once."
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"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."
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"We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure."
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"OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us."
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
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"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
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"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."
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"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."
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"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
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"So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort."
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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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"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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"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
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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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"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
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"I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group."
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"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."
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