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I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid. Robert Moog
Building Musical Kid Had Since Instruments Been Electronic
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. Robert Moog
Time Experience Building Musical Had Perhaps Instruments Got Years Electronic By The Time
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. Robert Moog
Other Other Kids Kids Out Beat Built Up Electronics Each Baseball Played
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? Rowland Hill
Good Devil Tunes Should Why
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. Samuel Morse
Intelligence Made Circuit Visible See No Reason Part Instantaneously Any May Transmitted Reason Electricity Why Presence
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. Samuel Morse
Character Holding Nothing Ruler Moral Moral Character Per Parent Having More Mere Employer Condition Than Any Being Therefore Slaves
My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price. Samuel Morse
Me Three Everybody Miniature Willing Price Dollar Dollars Ivory Five Engage Engaged Profiles Four
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years. Saul Griffith
People Will Year Design Way Something Only Principal Make Years Just Next Product Need
I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products. Saul Griffith
Today You Reality Build Think Else Tools Everyone Everyone Else Kind Same Use Products
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas A. Edison
Worth Result Trial Until Make Go Getting After Decided Fully
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. Thomas A. Edison
Made Community Up Cells Body Inhabitants
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. Tim Berners-Lee
You Innovation People Will Know Make Serendipity
Celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee
Life Private Private Life Celebrity Damages
There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world. Tim Berners-Lee
Time People World Internet Tool Another Felt Realise Use Now
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work. Tim Berners-Lee
Work You People Amazing Think Suppose Involved How Get Many Things
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. Tim Berners-Lee
You Technology Communicate Space Collaborative Web Through Sharing Idea Where Information Should Original Original Idea
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. Tim Berners-Lee
Business Care Design Easily Pretty Web About Data Attractive Ultimately Quickly dont Care Get Sites Want Much Users
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. Tim Berners-Lee
World Vision Reflect Other Everything Way Say Promote Web Could Computers Ideal Talk Democratically Get Done Where Want Such A Way Each
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services. Tim Berners-Lee
You Problems Will Web Services
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly. Tim Berners-Lee
Important Responsibly Web Name Important Thing Domain Achilles Achilles Heel Heel Server Thing
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. Tim Berners-Lee
Good You Engineer Will Software Tell Any Interchangeable Interpreter
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. Tim Berners-Lee
Market Must See Web Most Infrastructure Companies Grow Now Larger
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. Tim Berners-Lee
Good You People Will Websites Translation Live Enough Machine See Browse Allow Countries Know How Get Different Whether Different Countries Us Languages Eventually
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. Tim Berners-Lee
Future Me Innovation Internet Important Closed Kind Run One Of The Things About Computer Write Like Also Obviously Brake Use Whole Download Serious Platform Things Program
What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice. Tim Berners-Lee
People Three Year Before New Things Months Slip Web About Browse Could New Around Discover Years Human Human Beings Them Then Agents Notice Beings Download Now Fast Things
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it. Tim Berners-Lee
You Will Important Allow Idea New Most Piece Most Important Thing Important Thing Get Any The Most Important Hold Information Which Anywhere URL Should Thing
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