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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.
Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.
I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.
The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.