Quotes by Woody Norris - Page 1

I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.
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Busy
Garage
Tinkering
Girlfriends
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I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.
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College Degree
Degrees
Hire
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I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.
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Broad
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I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.
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Dying
Prototype
Life Me My Life
File
Patent
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I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
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Inventing
Sweating
Lab
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When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
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Ears
Speakers
Ear
Notice
Speaker
Sometime
Stereo
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I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
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Behave
Normal
Psychology
Seeming
Terrible
Normal People
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There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?
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Big Fish
Fish
Invent
Makin
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All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
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Quality
Audio
Higher
Linear
Percent
Opposite
Attempt
Based
Exactly
Higher Quality
More And More
Perfectly
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I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
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Died
Happiest
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It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
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Embarrassing
Getting Older
Gravity
May
Mundane
Thinking
Getting
Fail
Older
Least
Makes
Tackle
Tried
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I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'
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Commonplace
Emerging
Analogy
Colors
Invent
Likewise
Mix
Smear
Waves
Wondered
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I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.
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Air Force
Inventor
Phonograph
Tone
Accident
Arm
Article
Magazine
New Kind
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