...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.
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.
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Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
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Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
