The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
