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Ithat many will call this useless .
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Leonardo da Vinci
man
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Thomas Edison
lies
I don’t know whetherdid or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
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Henry Ford
history
If it isnt on Google, it doesnt exist.
—
Jimmy Wales
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
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Charles Babbage
age
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified?
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Nikola Tesla
art
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Alexander Graham Bell
success
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
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Henry Bessemer
success
Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.
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Karl Ferdinand Braun
time
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
—
Melvil Dewey
The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
—
Rudolf Diesel
life
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.
—
George Eastman
light
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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Douglas Engelbart
writing
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
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Leo Fender
men
Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
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Lee De Forest
will
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
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Charles Goodyear
man
Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.
—
Guglielmo Marconi
time
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
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Robert Moog
time
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
—
Samuel Morse
intelligence
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play Drop the Handkerchief.
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James Naismith
need
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
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Les Paul
art
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
—
Erno Rubik
life
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
—
Igor Sikorsky
work
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
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George Stephenson
art
Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
—
Steve Wozniak
trust
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