Douglas Engelbart Quotes
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
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I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
