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I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'
Rick Baker
Me
You
People
Job
Thinking
Teenager
Say
Tell
Would
About
How
How Many People
Real
Real Job
Up
Getting
Many
Grow
Grow Up
Why
Start
I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.
Rick Baker
Buy
Time
Free
Mask
Spent
Allowances
Free Time
Make
How
Quart
Used
Rubber
Save
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
Robert Jarvik
People
Intelligence
Related
Idea
Stumbling
Because
Real
Very
Intelligent
Intelligent People
Clumsy
Really
Function
Ridiculous
Bright
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik
Fear
Odds
Sense
Visionaries
Developed
Leaders
Concept
Against
Them
Poorly
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
Robert Jarvik
Heart
Experience
Doctor
Long
Physician
Think
Long Experience
Practical
Am
Scientist
Heart Disease
Very
Upfront
Disease
Medical
As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.
Robert Jarvik
Work
Death
Heart
People
World
Half
Patient
Medicine
Addition
Seven
Preventive
Lifestyle
Spokesman
Longest
Half Years
Advocate
Been
Years
Normal
Mobile
Sustained
Which
Rescued
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.
Robert Jarvik
Health
Technology
Man
Heart
Doctor
World
Care
Own
Runs
Fact
Through
Takes
Exercise
Frequent
Am
His
Fit
Five
Diet
In Fact
Expert
Mile
Who
Mechanical
Including
Medical
Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.
Robert Jarvik
Doctor
Glad
Take
Most
Dad
Medicines
Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.
Robert Jarvik
Confidence
Vote
Writing
Doctor
Country
Every
Our
Most
Educational
Campaign
Huge
Prescribed
Prescription
Ad
Ad Campaign
Widely
The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.
Robert Jarvik
Heart
People
Saved
More
Perfect
Could
Limited
Effective
Very
Hearts
Artificial
Human
Patients
Transplant
Many
Bridge
Number
Save
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.
Robert Jarvik
Work
Technology
Heart
Doctor
Invention
Practice
Licensing
Rather
Take
Instead
Doctor Who
Affairs
Clinical
Than
Hearts
Artificial
Decided
Which
Required
Manufacturing
Regulatory
Who
Chose
Medical
Application
Career
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
Robert Jarvik
Science
Treat
Practice
Medicine
Individual
Clinical
Patients
Hence
Medical
Career
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.
Robert Jarvik
Physician
Practical
Am
Scientist
Medical
I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.
Robert Jarvik
Me
Heart
Age
Battle
Doctor
Father
Become
Spokesman
Because
Accepted
Am
Motivated
Heart Disease
Role
Disease
Which
Against
Dedicated
Medical
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.
Robert Metcalfe
Freedom
Innovation
World
Prosperity
Makes
Go
Round
Brings
You don't grow the economy by growing government.
Robert Metcalfe
Government
You
Economy
Grow
Growing
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
Robert Metcalfe
Good
Master
Resources
Visionaries
Authority
Current
Transcend
Where
While
Realities
Them
CEOs
Persuasion
Organizations
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
Robert Metcalfe
Internet
Will
Seven
Ten
Data
Exceed
Ten Years
Voice
Combined
Years
Traffic
Video
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Robert Moog
Time
Musicians
Long
Invention
Long Time
Important
Think
Computers
Long Time Ago
Since
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Happen
Which
Thing
Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
Robert Moog
Energy
Everything
Some
About
Most
Tap
Basic
Level
Consciousness
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
Robert Moog
Sense
Down
Other
Virtuoso
Machine
Machinery
More
Pianist
He
Performance
Involving
Does
Than
Any
Human
Human Activity
Information
Transmitting
Activity
Technical
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
Robert Moog
Myself
Musicians
Engineer
Tools
See
Customers
Use
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Robert Moog
Work
Music
Me
Musicians
Training
Opportunity
Engineer
Design
Stuff
Make
Reason
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
Robert Moog
You
Think
Took
Those
Would
Wearing
Ties
Off
Them
Who
Dad
Appreciate
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
Robert Moog
Build
Building
Setting
Musical
Finishing
House
Instruments
Up
Shop
Custom
The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
Robert Moog
Myself
People
Design
Other
Point
Stuff
Want
Use
Things
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