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It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.
Phil Karn
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Inventor
Encryption
Roots
Strong
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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Robert Moog
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Inventor
Opportunity
Design
Training
Work Music Opportunity
Musicians
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If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
Saul Griffith
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Inventor
Design
Bragging
Frivolous
Rights
Two
Month
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Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Greed
People
Powerful
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I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Outcomes
Trying
Worry
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Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Fun
Get Better
Projects
Worry
Billion
Dollar
Seem
Winners
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Thomas A. Edison
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Inventor
Imagination
Solitude
Thinking
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Education
Intelligence
Learning
Differences
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China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
James Dyson
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Inventor
China
Pioneers
Risk-taking
Thinking
Advantages
Free
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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
Nikola Tesla
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Inventor
Stars
Thinking
Ties
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Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Artist
Shy
Working Alone
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Learning
Power
Real
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I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Kind
Planning
Want
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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.
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Lot
Understand
Between
Difference
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Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids.
Homaro Cantu
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Inventor
Childhood
Healthy
Instill
Sugar
Favorite
Habits
Joys
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What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
Hugo Gernsback
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Inventor
Clouds
Description
Novelists
Sunset
Apparatus
Detective
Scientific
Sunsets
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The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
James Dyson
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Inventor
Technology
Driven
East
Emerging
World
Technology World New
Far East
Powers
Super
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In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
James Dyson
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Inventor
Past
Selling
Selling Things
Trying
Unusual
Export
In The Past
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I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
James Dyson
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Inventor
Breakfast
Coastline
Miles
Norfolk
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
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Inventor
Civilisation
Fire
Flames
May
Next
Spread
Blaze
Feeble
Flickering
Increasing
Mighty
Spark
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Thomas A. Edison
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Inventor
Adaptation
Ideas
Problem
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The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Peace
Future
War
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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Engineering
Focus
Real
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas A. Edison
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Inventor
Diet
Future
Care
Disease
Medicine
Patient
Prevention
Doctor
Cause
Human
Frame
Give
His
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Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Achievement
Adversity
Trying
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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
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Inventor
Admire
Creativity
Embrace
Keys
Light
Photography
Will
Above
Love Will Know
Makes
Worth
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Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.
Guglielmo Marconi
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Inventor
Atheism
Charity
Religious
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Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Nikola Tesla
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Inventor
Branches
Currents
Electrical
Interesting
Investigation
Dealing
Immediately
Perhaps
Promising
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The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….
Oliver Evans
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Inventor
Bird
Cities
People
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I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Decision
People
Political
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Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Car
Iphone
Watches
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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Concentration
Engineering
Exceptional
Focus
Obscure
Programming
Head
Hundreds
Worked
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Eli Whitney
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Inventor
Power
Men
Given
Greater
Late
Serious
Taken
Too Late
Now
Myself
Man
Any
Back
Perform
Too
Task
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If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.
Erno Rubik
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Inventor
Chance
Able
Frustrated
Further
Present
Step
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What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.
James Dyson
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Inventor
Inspirational
Running
Hurt
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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
James Dyson
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Inventor
Assembly
Engineering
Ideas
Manufacturing
Principles
Testing
Together
Just
More
Coming
Final
Well
Parts
Perfecting
Putting
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Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Company
Investment
Wanted
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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering
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Inventor
Chance
Science
Time
Faster
Progress
Standing
Your Will Never
Somewhere
Toe
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You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney
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Inventor
Desire
Public School
Reputation
School
Speak
Acquainted
Approbation
Undoubtedly
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The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
James Dyson
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Inventor
Best World Talent
Essential
Investor
Supplied
Universities
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Oliver Evans
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Inventor
Communication
Reasoning
Thinking
Two
Alike
Frequently
Invent
Mechanical
Same Thing
Subject
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It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games.
Palmer Luckey
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Inventor
Games
Taken
Years
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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
Steve Wozniak
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Inventor
Famous
Politics
First Amendment
Knowing
Lying
Newspapers
Protected
Amendment
Lie
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
Thomas A. Edison
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Inventor
Inspirational
Motivational
Ninety Nine
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I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.
Erno Rubik
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Inventor
Clear
Geometry
Simplicity
Universe
Whole
Cube
Geometrical
Shape
Structured
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[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.
Henry Fox Talbot
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Inventor
Cameras
Eye
Glasses
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I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Inventor
Running
Ak 47
Railway
Wanted
Run
Developed
Engine
Invent
Looked
Stayed
Though
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Thomas A. Edison
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Inventor
Motivational
Hands
Ideas
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The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.
Rudolf Diesel
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Inventor
Biofuels
Important
Oil
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
Thomas A. Edison
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Inventor
Life
Motivational
Fitness
Healing
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