Quotes about american-inventor
american-inventor exposition fiction science theme
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. Hugo Gernsback
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Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs. Vint Cerf
american-inventor cases chosen conclude eventually finally muddle risky seemed
Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
american-inventor confined defense earliest great networking project single solve worked
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
american-inventor loves nobody successful unless
Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. David Sarnoff
american-inventor board company internet nonprofit number small
Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies. Vinton Cerf
american-inventor case decided fall head motor side
We decided to place the motor to one side of the man, so that in case of a plunge head first, the motor could not fall upon him. Orville Wright
american-inventor entertainment expect gone industry
I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.
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If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering
american-inventor difference great
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
american-inventor future interest life spend
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
american-inventor people sets virtually
Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances. Rick Baker
american-inventor proper purpose verb
Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller
american-inventor
I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with. Eli Whitney
american-inventor expedient man
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds
american-inventor rooting
There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for. Milton Bradley
american-inventor earth elevator orbit ride trying
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
american-inventor exposed isolated large parts people problems various
People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.
american-inventor time
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. Ray Kurzweil
american-inventor devices human
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
american-inventor discontent
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. Thomas A. Edison
american-inventor normally pervasive prediction
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. Jeff Hawkins
american-inventor camp design general leaving machine propel proposed work
Before leaving camp in 1902 we were already at work on the general design of a new machine which we proposed to propel with a motor.
american-inventor industry sure threat
So one of the most important things we can do in the industry is make sure that the threat of cyberattacks is minimized as much as possible.
american-inventor developing imagination perfect scientific theory
You have a perfect right to use your imagination as you will in developing the principles, but the fundamental scientific theory must be correct.
american-inventor apple august dropped focusing grad school time work
I started focusing all my time on being an Apple II hobbyist, dropped out of grad school to go to work for Apple in August of '79. Andy Hertzfeld
american-inventor creating games job origin systems
I started creating games in 1979 and got my first real programming job at Origin Systems in 1987. I am completely self-taught, no school. John Romero
american-inventor
I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.
american-inventor engineers factual people scientists turn understand
If you need to understand it to make policy, you should turn first to people who are scientists and engineers for factual information.
american-inventor anecdotes birthday led mac published time web
I published on the web about 60 anecdotes about the development of the Mac in time for the Mac's 20th birthday in 2004. And that led to a book.
american-inventor camp chain drive found hawk kitty leaving shop tested
Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.
american-inventor delighted dodger dreams grew
But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.
american-inventor inside shock time worked
It's always kind of a shock the first time you see a movie that you worked on to see what's really inside the edit. And how much of it, you know?