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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
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That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.
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Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by…
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Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share…
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Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
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When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
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How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so…
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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors…
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Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,…
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Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking…
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden…
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We need to play each others instruments.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build…
— John F. Kennedy
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We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world,…
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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire…
— Anthony de Mello
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…
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