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Quotes by Inventor
"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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"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
42
"When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won."
42
"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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"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."
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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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"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
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"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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"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
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"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."
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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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"The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people."
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"I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started."
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"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
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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 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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"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
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"You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there."
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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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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
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