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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one read more
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure read more
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out read more
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be read more
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
