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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.
I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.
Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.
I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.
The Cube was a wonder - a wonder for itself and a wonder for myself. To me, it was much more strange than to anybody else.
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.