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I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.
After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.
China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
Either lead or follow, but please don’t block the road for those who move forward
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.
Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.
You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.
The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.
The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae.
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.
If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.
When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.
I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own