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Quotes by Inventor
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
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"Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is."
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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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"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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"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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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."
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"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job."
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"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
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"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."
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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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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
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"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."
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"As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up."
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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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"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
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"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
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"I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful."
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"In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction."
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"We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not."
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"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
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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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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
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"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."
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"If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false."
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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
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